Tag: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

ICE Contractor Falsely Reported Big Increase in Ankle Monitors on Illegal Immigrants: Report

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. The report compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University follows a…


ICE Can’t ‘Locate’ Records of 378,000 Detainees

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are unable to locate any records for illegal immigrants taken into custody and placed in a federal program to “ensure non-detained non-citizen compliance with release conditions, court hearings, and final orders of removal, according to a non-profit government transparency advocacy group. “ICE has conducted a search of the ICE…


US Officials Overwhelmed by Immigrant Flood at Border as Case Backlog Swells to Record Numbers

Illegal immigrants are flooding across the U.S. border with Mexico in such numbers that federal immigration officials are being overwhelmed by the biggest-ever backlog of pending cases even though they are being processed faster, according to new data obtained by a government watchdog group. “Latest case-by-case court records through October 2022 reveal that Fiscal Year…