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Biden Admin Awards $80 Million Contract That Prohibits GPS Monitoring Of Illegal Immigrants Experts say system will make it impossible to keep track of migrants released into US
freebeacon ^ | 9/15/2022 | Joseph Simonson

Posted on 09/17/2022 5:47:54 AM PDT by rktman

The Biden administration is spending nearly $80 million on a new system to monitor illegal immigrants that prohibits the use of any GPS technology, a decision that experts say will make it impossible to locate their whereabouts after their release into the United States.

The system, according to government records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, is meant to track illegal immigrants via monthly check-ins via phone. Migrants released into the U.S. interior aged 18-19 are eligible for the program. Any GPS monitoring that would give exact locations, such as ankle monitor tracking, is explicitly forbidden, according to the contract.

"This sort of thing is popular among the left. It sounds great but the reality is that people in these programs will likely never be [deported]," former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Ron Vitiello told the Free Beacon. "There's nothing at the end of these programs. If they don't report in, that's that. They're now a fugitive."

The new program for illegal immigrants contradicts claims from the Biden administration that the federal government is investing in sophisticated monitoring programs for illegal immigrants during the worst border crisis in U.S. history. When Republican lawmakers criticized the White House over reports in April that immigration authorities were providing cell phones for illegal immigrants upon their release into the United States, the White House defended the conduct, saying the phones assist the government in monitoring the location of illegal immigrants.

"We need to take steps to ensure that we know where individuals are and we can track and we can check in with them," former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

The contract was awarded to Acuity International last month. The first payment of just over $16 million out of a potential $79.5 million was paid on Sept. 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadm; illegalsinvasion; trackers
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To: Highest Authority

You know, “experts”. Same “experts” telling us about climate change and vaccines are good for you and safe, effective and on and on ad nauseum. “They” can phu cough!


21 posted on 09/17/2022 6:14:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dforest

but not be tracked at ballot boxes?

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BINGO.

Dems inventing new ways to cheat nonstop.


22 posted on 09/17/2022 6:20:04 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: rktman

GPS tracking is allowed when it’s about a Republican.


23 posted on 09/17/2022 6:26:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is insanity.)
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To: cuz1961

BidenPhone


24 posted on 09/17/2022 6:28:25 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: antidemoncrat

I really think the best Freeper name for Biden was—and should be—”Joe Stolen”.


25 posted on 09/17/2022 6:28:32 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: cranked

Traitor. Treason. Ffs.


26 posted on 09/17/2022 6:41:59 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: milagro

When bidet Carrie’s out his warnings to Russia over Ukraine I hope dc sees 50MTs to get rid of our scum.


27 posted on 09/17/2022 6:44:49 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: rktman

How do you pay someone $80M to NOT do something..???

Heck, I’ll do nothing for half that!


28 posted on 09/17/2022 6:57:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: cranked

Some analysts place the numbers at 7.6 to 8.1 million when the so called “walk aways” are counted.


29 posted on 09/17/2022 6:58:50 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Mr. K

How do you pay someone $80M to NOT do something..???

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30 posted on 09/17/2022 7:09:09 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: rktman
The contract was awarded to Acuity International last month. The first payment of just over $16 million out of a potential $79.5 million was paid on Sept. 1.

Acuity International

Our team, with roots tracing back to Comprehensive Health Services, Janus Global Operations, Project Time & Cost (PT&C), Michael Baker Global Services, and Sallyport, remains as committed as ever to your short-term needs and long term success.

Learn more about how our newly formed business practices – Advanced Medical Solutions, Global Mission Solutions and Engineering & Technology Solutions – are solving a diverse set of problems – including rapid pandemic response, security for ever changing international missions, workforce health and safety and cloud-based technology to manage enterprise-wide projects.

Looks like the typical connected company. Is based in Reston VA, and claims 30.000 employees.

31 posted on 09/17/2022 7:10:19 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster; rktman

It’s too expensive to finish the wall but we can afford to give cell phones to Untracked, Unvetted, UN-medical checked and unemployable, Undocumented immigrants.


32 posted on 09/17/2022 7:14:34 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritI)
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To: rktman

Well that’s the plan. Its an infestation.


33 posted on 09/17/2022 7:19:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rktman

Acuity International; gladly explaining where 7 million illegals disappeared.


34 posted on 09/17/2022 7:34:10 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: rktman

Good, DeSantis can fly them into Martha’s Vineyard after midnight with no tracking. It would not be a bad idea for the US to cede Martha’s Vineyard to Mexico as we don’t really need their little island with faulty bridges that cause drunk politicians to wind up in the drink forcing them to swim home while leaving them passengers to fend for themselves


35 posted on 09/17/2022 7:49:48 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: rktman

Good, DeSantis can fly them into Martha’s Vineyard after midnight with no tracking. It would not be a bad idea for the US to cede Martha’s Vineyard to Mexico as we don’t really need their little island with faulty bridges that cause drunk politicians to wind up in the drink forcing them to swim home while leaving them passengers to fend for themselves


36 posted on 09/17/2022 7:49:49 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: rktman

Wait, $$$$$$$$$$$ to stop something that isn’t being done. Where do I get on this gravy train?


37 posted on 09/17/2022 8:25:30 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: rktman

The things the Biden administration comes up with proves they all are on happy meds their stupidity has no limits.


38 posted on 09/17/2022 8:54:07 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: cranked

The BP has already found persons on International Terrorist Lists.


39 posted on 09/17/2022 9:28:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: rktman

I paid estimated taxes this week. I pay a lot of taxes. It outrages me beyond all measure that expenditures have no relation to income, and that they piss it away without a second thought. Here 80 million bucks…just for show


40 posted on 09/17/2022 9:30:32 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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