Biden reinvents migrant detention
February 11, 2022
The Biden administration is working towards renewing the way of tracking undocumented immigrants awaiting court proceedings. Specifically, the administration is trying to expand the home confinement and curfew pilot program used for the nearly 18,000 undocumented immigrants currently residing throughout the country. The administration hopes that expanding home confinement will reduce the need for detention facilities. The new pilot program will be implemented in Baltimore and Houston with a couple of hundred immigrants. A nationwide program is expected later this year. As of last weekend, there were almost 179,000 migrants in alternative-to-detention (ATD) programs being monitored with trackable devices.
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