The latest information on the recent murder of Laken Riley at the University Georgia raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the expensive and controversial Alternatives to Detention program.
As described on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website, ATD exists "To ensure compliance with release conditions and provide important case management services for non-detained noncitizens".
Now, a new statement from ICE regarding the Georgia murder case underscores exactly how ineffective the ATD program can be, raising many issues for Congress to look into.
Congress should also ask whether murder suspect Jose Ibarra was enrolled in ATD and, if not, why not? If so, did he also abscond from the program? Was anyone seriously monitoring him? When did he last check in with ICE? Did he have a check-in scheduled? Did ICE ever reach out to him after it learned his brother absconded from the ATD program?
If Congress is going to continue to fund ATD, it should place some parameters on the program and also add serious punishments in federal law for violations of ATD. Currently, ATD is an extremely expensive program that illegal aliens routinely violate without consequence.
If Congress were to make violation of ATD a felony and require DHS to immediately cancel any pending immigration case or benefit for an alien who absconds and make that alien immediately removable without any additional proceeding, that would likely go a long way in making the program effective.
As part of the ATD program, aliens are allowed to move and change where they're living, but they're supposed to first alert the ICE field office handing their case.
https://cis.org/Feere/Georgia-Murder-Case-Highlights-Problems-Alternatives-Detention
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