US: Joe Biden's new programme aims to put migrants under house arrest instead of detention

In order to tackle sourn border migrant crisis, Joe Biden administration is slated to introduce a plan that would place migrants on US-Mexico border under "house arrest,” an official from Department of Homeland and Security (DHS) and a tice, separately from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed on Tuesday. House arrest would be an alternative to detention as migrants wait for ir court hearings. Biden administration is introducing a new plan to curb for-profit detention s, US ICE said in a statement on February 8. US President Joe Biden’s $142-a-day worth “Home Curfew” pilot program will be introduced in Baltimore and Houston, and will include approximately 100-200 detainees as per an Axios report. 

US' 1,80,000 undocumented immigrants, court backlogs

In US, an estimated 1,80,000 undocumented immigrants are already under surveillance and have ankle bracelets and or traceable devices on ir bodies for US authorities to be able to trace m. new home confinement and curfew pilot program will ensure that migrants aren’t held in detention centres during court hearing backlogs, and would also curb illegal immigration into United States. 

Thousands of immigration cases are being dealt with by United States as people infiltrate sourn border from Haiti, Venezuela, and in some cases as far as India — to reach Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, according to Axios. y are monitored with trackable devices, including cellphones, bracelets, and smartwatches. As progressives in United States deunced brutal immigration policies that required authorities to hold immigrants in detention centres, Biden administration has come up with ar method that some officials label as a more authoritarian option. 

"Alternatives-to-detention [programs] are an effective method of tracking n-citizens released from CBP custody who are awaiting ir immigration proceedings," a DHS spokesperson told Axios. "Those who do t report are subject to arrest and potential removal by ICE.”

Joe Biden’s new plan, however, was also widely criticised as too absurd and strict. “How it started: Pres. Biden’s executive actions were a green light for illegal immigrants to enter country,” Sen. John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, wrote on Twitter. “How it’s going: Record border crossings, overflowing detention centers and release of single adult migrants into US  #BidenBorderCrisis rs on,” Sen. added. group Detention Watch lambasted Biden for introducing “more restrictive surveillance” methods and being unable to control border migrant crisis. According to data released by US Customs and Border Protection, as many as 1.9 million arrests were made along sourn border last year, a record high since Biden took office. 

Im: AP