Rigged by Design

A glimpse at how ICE manipulates its algorithm to incarcerate immigrants strengthens the case for abolishing immigration detention.

By Aly Panjwani

Under the Biden administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t stopped arresting and detaining people, tearing apart immigrant communities, families, and livelihoods across the country. Advocates are pushing the administration to reverse course on some of the agency’s grossest abuses, many of which were brought to mainstream attention throughout the Trump era. But the reality is still dark: ICE’s national, law enforcement-supported network of detention facilities, where more than 22,000 immigrants are currently incarcerated, and its ballooning electronic monitoring program, where close to 132,000 people are constantly surveilled, remain stronger than ever.

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