ICE Has No Idea Where 400,000 Illegals Are…

Well… we can go ahead and file this under “Not Surprised.”

ICE is underreporting how many migrants in the “Alternatives to Detention” program they’ve lost track of?

Shocker.

From the Daily Wire:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has “no records” of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants it released into the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security agency made its admission in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). TRAC had requested information on 377,980 illegal immigrants in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The ICE ATD program is designed to ensure migrant compliance with court orders while avoiding physical detainment. The agency keeps tabs on migrants through GPS tracking, through ankle monitors or cell phones, and mandatory check-ins with case agents. The program was launched in 2004 to free up space in detention centers while migrants wait for their cases to be processed in crowded immigration courts.

“ICE’s response that they could no longer find records on immigrants in [ATD] that they had previously released came as a shock, particularly after they informed us recently that they had been misleading the public for several months by releasing extremely inaccurate ATD data. The agency really needs to come clean. The American public deserves to have accurate data about the ATD program,” TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher told the DCNF.

Earlier this month, ICE issued an apology after it was revealed to have underreported the number of illegal immigrants it has released into the public without electronic surveillance, such as an ankle bracelet, by more than 18,000%.

ICE had reported on its website that 266 illegal migrants had been released from the agency’s custody with no electronic surveillance as of November. At a December 1 event in Washington, D.C., ICE told attendees, which included top agency officials and advocacy group heads, that the number of illegal migrants it had released without electronic surveillance was actually 49,459.

I’m honestly surprised that some progressive hack (like AOC, given her emotional border photoshoot) hasn’t challenged the name of the “Alternatives to Detention” program.

It MaKeS tHeM sOuNd LiKe CRiMinALs…

Well… they’ve technically become criminals the minute they walk across the border without following the correct legal process. I feel like a lot of libs forget that part (which is probably being too nice, because most of them probably do know that but choose to ignore it).

We also have to remember to take into account the number of border crossings that involve previously convicted criminals… Captain Geriatric and Cackles McShrill like to ignore that too, apparently.

The way we go about things is honestly mindboggling to me. We give these migrants cell phones, make them pinky promise to show up to court, and then act surprised when we don’t see them again…

Sounds legit.

Also… are we just supposed to trust that these numbers from ICE are the correct ones? Not buying it…