Illegals in the US will be sent under house arrest instead of detention

The Biden administration will place hundreds of migrants caught on the U.S.-Mexico border under house arrest in the coming weeks as it looks for cheaper alternatives to immigration detention. Reuters.

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According to a notice sent out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the 120-day pilot program will be launched in Houston and Baltimore, each with 100 to 200 single adults.

The pilot project of the so-called "home curfew" will cost $6-8 per day for each participant, which is much less than the $142 per day for immigrant detention.

Participants are generally required to stay at home from 20:00. until 8 am, except for work schedules for those with a work permit or emergency.

Current detention alternatives, such as ankle bracelets and phone monitoring, require individuals to notify handlers if they leave the state or travel, but do not require home detention, a DHS spokesman said.

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US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has promised a more humane approach to immigration policy than his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump. During Biden's presidential campaign, he promised to end commercial detention of immigrants, but has yet to deliver on that promise.

The home curfew program may face criticism from both immigration hardliners for being too lax and immigrant advocates for being more restrictive than existing detention alternatives. One immigrant advocate on Twitter called the plan a "mass e-prison" after Axios first gave details of the pilot project.

The plan comes as arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border are expected to hit record levels again this year, and detention spaces have been limited due to the pandemic. Although the majority of migrants caught at the border are quickly expelled from the United States under a COVID-related medical order, thousands have been allowed into the country to have their immigration cases processed.

“We simply don’t have the capacity,” a DHS spokesman said. “We are not going to delay the resolution of the border crisis.”

The Biden administration plans to seek funding from Congress to place up to 400 migrants this year in alternative detention facilities, which could include a home curfew initiative as well as existing programs, a DHS spokesman said.

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According to ICE, about 164 people are currently in alternative detention programs, about double the number as of September 000, 30, before Biden took office.

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