ICE Admits It Has ‘No Records’ For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants Released With Electronic Monitors
Daily Caller | 12/28/2022 | Jennie TaerU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) admitted it has “no records” of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants released into the country with electronic tracking devices, the agency said in a Dec. 22 letter to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
ICE informed TRAC that it had “no records” of the 377,980 individuals monitored by the agency’s “Alternatives to Detention” (ATD) program used to electronically track illegal immigrants released into the country. TRAC had asked for data via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on those in ATD custody from the start of fiscal year 2019 to August 2022.
“ICE’s response that they could no longer find records on immigrants in Alternatives to Detention (ATD) that they had previously released came as a shock, particularly after they informed us recently that they had been misleading the public for several months by releasing extremely inaccurate ATD data. The agency really needs to come clean. The American public deserves to have accurate data about the ATD program,” TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
ICE started the ATD program in 2004 to monitor illegal migrants released into the country using ankle monitors, GPS tracking and cellphones. With limited detention space, ICE relies on the program to hold those awaiting the years-long backlogs in immigration courts.
Straight Line of the Day: The government is only good at tracking certain things, such as…

…I’m not sayin it’s space aliens, but it’s space aliens.
… microaggressions – they’re really good at that…
“Wait. . . . Is that, itself, a microaggression?”
— FBI agent, removing sunglasses and squinting eyes
(Shoves Melania’s panties into his pocket)
… MAGA hats – you can’t miss ‘em…
… I’d say “mansplaining”, but, you know I can’t…
… IMAO interns, for some reason…
Those Bastards!!!
They’re monitoring them by viewing your posts, so it’s a wine-wine. I mean, win-win.
As long as they aren’t accessing my “Top Secret” “Highly Classified” files I keep in my garage by my classic car.
… people who “check all the right boxes” for getting top positions…
“The president’s been very clear on this . . . “
— KJP
. . . “no records” of the 377,980 individuals monitored . . . “
You keep using that word, “monitored” — I do not think it means what you think it means.
Also, if there are no records how do they know there are precisely 377,980 of them?
They are really good at tracking people who buy certain kinds of completely legal triggers through transactions that aren’t supposed to be tracked. So good they occasionally show up at people’s doors to confiscate said triggers.
such as Classified Documents.
Hey, you keep out of my Corvette from now on!
well, it’s certainly NOT all those guns they gave to Mexican Cartels specifically to track.
Operation Faust and Furious
Placement of large wooden badgers
…anything that can be measured in the units of Hogheads per Fortnight
I have a brace of those.
Gross
“Straight Line of the Day: The Government Is Only Good at Tracking Certain Things, Such As…”
…Eights. . . You ever have an eight-track in your car? It’s right there in the name. Wake up, sheep!
Interns are tens. They’re going to the next level, man!
…offensives against liberals and liberal organizations that need to be rectified.
During the third [rectification] of the last of the [Trump] supplicants, they chose a new form for him – that of a giant [MAGA]! Many [Bushies] and [McCarthyites] knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a SLoTD that day, I can tell you!
Who ya gonna call? GOPBusters
“Cross the streams, Egon!!!”
The government is only good at tracking certain things, such as…
how much tax the lowly peasants owe their liege Lords.
Marbles…. and they’ve lost quite a few of them.
The government is only good at tracking certain things, such as…
you know, THE thing!
This is so simple..we apprehend them when they return their ankle monitors for the deposit…
The government is only good at tracking certain things, such as…
2000 mules.
…the last dime of budgets. The other trillions, not so much.
…past indiscretions of no longer useful, useful idiots.
…which rights to impinge, and those to trample.
…border jumping Canadians.
…which variations of localized weather events signal the planets impending doom. (Hint: It’s all of them.)
“…border jumping Canadians.”
Those just go up and down, right? Not forward?
The government is only good at tracking certain things, such as…
…mud.
Across my linoleum floors.
Just after I had mopped them.