Technologies on guard of the border: how ICE monitors illegal immigrants using the application

Deportation agents are using a smartphone app during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow immigrants released from detention to attend online deportation hearings and to check their location, which advocates say violates their privacy, reports AP.

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More than 125 people, many of whom stopped at the US-Mexico border, are now forced to install an app known as SmartLink on their phones. This allows officials to easily check them. They require immigrants to send a selfie, make or receive a phone call when asked to do so.

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While the technology is less cumbersome than an ankle bracelet, proponents say it's unfair to tie immigrants to the app, given many of them have paid bail to get out of U.S. detention facilities while their cases go through immigration courts. country.

Immigration proceedings are administrative, not criminal, and the vast majority of those in court are not detained.

Advocates said they were concerned about how the US government could use data obtained from the immigrant location and contact app to detain and arrest others for immigration violations.

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