ICE Removes Deportation-Ordered Immigrants From Online Locator, Obscuring Detainees With Final Orders
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 22
ICE Removes Deportation-Ordered Immigrants From Online Locator, Obscuring Detainees With Final Orders
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 22
Summary
Immigrants with final deportation orders are disappearing from ICE’s searchable online detainee locator, making them harder to track after being taken into custody.
The change leaves families and attorneys unable to determine where a detainee is being held, cutting off a key tool used to locate people in the system.
ICE is erasing only those with final removal orders from the database, narrowing public visibility at a stage when detainees can still be moved between facilities.