- According to a statement on the agency’s website, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is contracting out the policy development for its Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program.
- The program makes use of tracking technologies to keep an eye on illegal immigrants who have been freed from custody.
- Former ICE Director Tom Homan told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “This is just another attempt by this administration to let immigration advocates decide what a federal law enforcement agency can and cannot do and how they’re going to do business, which is unacceptable.”
The Department of Homeland Security is searching for a third party to help develop the regulations for a program that will monitor illegal immigrants who are released from detention. This high-value contract could be worth millions, giving nongovernmental organizations the chance to participate in guarding American borders and enforcing immigration laws.
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The Department of Homeland Security is asking the business sector to help with a project that could completely change how ICE keeps track of immigrants admitted to the country. Alternatives to Detention (ATD) uses telephones and ankle bracelets to provide real-time monitoring without using detention techniques, a notion that was previously put up by organizations that are completely opposed to such detainment tactics. In support of this effort, a contract advertisement for $1 to $2 million has already been published.
“This is just another attempt by this administration to let immigration advocates decide what a federal law enforcement agency can and can’t do and how they’re going to do business, which is unconscionable,” former acting ICE Director Tom Homan told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A faith-based organization that has actively worked to have the agency cease operations was recently selected by the agency for its Case Management Pilot Program, which is an ironic turn of events.
“ICE officers and policy staff could easily develop ATD policies without the involvement of some NGO that opposes ICE’s mission. The experienced officers who have seen their fair share of ATD violations should be driving this — but this administration’s goal is to take officers out of the equation, it seems,” Jon Feere, a former ICE chief of staff who is presently the center for immigration studies’ director of investigations, told the DCNF.
ATD has proven to be a challenging policy for reducing illegal immigration, despite the dreams of many. According to an internal analysis that Fox News obtained exclusively, only 16% of those who were enrolled in it between 2015 and 2020 kept up with their legal actions, leaving 84% of them to disappear without repercussion.
“Thousands of aliens violate the terms of ATD each year and abscond with no repercussions. Any policy change should include barring ATD violators from immigration benefits, requiring detention for most aliens since ICE routinely fails to anticipate who will abscond from the program, developing a unit within Fugitive Operations dedicated to immediately arresting and deporting ATD violators, and demanding that Congress impose a five-year criminal penalty for aliens who violate ATD. This is the bare minimum if the ATD program is to develop any integrity. Since 2005, the taxpayers have put about $1.5 billion into the program, and it’s mostly just resulted in aliens disappearing into the United States and becoming fugitives. Congress must massively increase detention if our nation’s immigration laws are to mean anything,” Feere added.
When it comes to their data on illegal immigrants, ICE appears to be dealing with a troubling discrepancy. The DCNF revealed a shocking 18,000% underreporting of those who were released without any sort of tracking technology.
After doing a comprehensive examination, the DCNF found a startling 600% discrepancy between the information that ICE publicly claimed to have on persons they had used GPS technology to follow and what they had secretly disclosed. It goes without saying that after this mismatch was discovered, ICE admitted their mistakes and promptly fixed them.
“ICE has a policy shop, DHS has a policy shop. So why are they going to a nongovernment agency when they already have policy shops in place that do this exact thing? I’ll tell you why, because they want an outside NGO to write policies that are gonna do away with compliance, do away with the GPS capability,” Homan said.
