Stop excessive and inhumane tracking of immigrants facing deportation. Ankle monitors are for violent criminals, not men and women whose only "crime" was coming to this country in search of a better life.
Why is this important?
ICE, the federal agency in charge of deportations, is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on inhumane tracking of immigrants facing deportation. Thousands of people are forced to wear ankle monitors and suffer random home inspections -- even though many of these people have no criminal history and pose little flight risk. While just 3% of criminals on probation wear ankle monitors, 29% of the 21,000 immigrants in this heightened supervision program live with these devices 24 hours a day, even plugging them in to recharge while they sleep at night.
Behavioral Interventions, a subsidiary of private prison company Geo Group, is receiving $378 million from ICE to monitor immigrants this way. There should be no profit in this process. It's excessive, it's wrong, and it's up to us to make our voices heard for fairness and humanity in the treatment of America's immigrants.
