Lawmakers Accuse ICE of Causing 'Disappearances' with Flawed Detainee Tracking System
A group of 36 Democratic lawmakers have written a scathing letter accusing the Department of Homeland Security of creating 'disappearances' through its unreliable online detainee locator system used to track people in immigration detention.
Lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, are accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of creating disappearances on U.S. soil due to the increasingly unreliable online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities.
In a letter shared with The Guardian, the group of 36 lawmakers is urging the DHS inspector general's office to open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online detainee locator system (ODLS). This system has been used for years by family members, attorneys, and journalists to try to locate people within the federal immigration detention system.
The lawmakers argue that the ODLS has become
