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It Could Happen Here Weekly 90

It Could Happen Here

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The Differences Between Alternatives to Detention and Supervised Release

In addition to the smartphone app that migrants use to even try to seek asylum, now migrants also have to download an app called SmartLink. This is contracted out from an organization called BI that effectively mostly contracts with the criminal justice system but they also contract with ICE. So it means that that same phone that one, you know, struggled with on the periphery of Renosa trying to just even get into the United States has become a kind of mobile border. They never where migrants never really arrive and they never really leave.

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