An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency contractor reported—and the government regularly published—false data showing a huge increase in the use of ankle monitors to track illegal aliens released into the United States, according to a transparency watchdog.
A report compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University follows a December 2022 statement by ICE acknowledging that throughout that year, the agency published data showing big increases in the agency’s use of electronic ankle monitors through the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program for illegal immigrants, when, in actual fact, far fewer such devices were being used.
