In the US, smartphones are distributed to illegal migrants

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The US federal government has decided to implement a program to ease restrictions on illegal migrants, in connection with which some families of illegal migrants who were detained at the border, give smartphones.

Low-risk public migrants are released from two insulators in the state of Texas and given smartphones to them to ensure that they are able to contact their case managers and get to their destination in the United States.

Officials say the phones are not used to track migrants and are simply a less restrictive alternative to migrant isolation programs. whose cases are pending in court, writes Los Angeles Times.

However, migrant lawyers were skeptical about the smartphone distribution program, suspecting that the confidentiality of their communication with lawyers could be violated in this way if the phones were tapped.

Janet Guevara Leyva, whose asylum case is pending, received a Galaxy 4 smartphone from the government after she was released from the detention center. She was told that she had been chosen for the telephone provision program because she was raising two young children, two and seven years old.

Since January 2016, the 25 families of migrants have already received telephones and have been released from the isolators. It is planned that they will be 50.

For the program, families are selected that represent a low level of threat to society.

They are supposed to return the phones when their cases are completed.

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