ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors

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The US is tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors as part of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) electronic surveillance program, according to private prison corporation The Geo Group. Early last year, just 17,000 immigrants were wearing the devices.. The Geo Group owns BI Inc, the company that runs ICE’s intensive supervision appearance program (ISAP), and reported the numbers in its earnings call on Thursday. The overall number of immigrants enrolled in the surveillance program remained flat at about 184,000. Geo Group executives said that a large number of participants were shifted from less intensive forms of surveillance, such as phone check-ins, to ankle monitors. The shift…

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