Posted on 04/07/2022 2:31:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
The White House on Wednesday defended the idea of giving smartphones to illegal border crossers, to help them stay in touch with ICE officials.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared indignant after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy questioned her about the program, detailed recently in their reporting.
“I think you, of all people, since you’ve asked me a range of questions on this topic over time, would recognize that we need to take steps to ensure that we know where individuals are and we can track, and we can check in with then,” she replied.
Psaki said the phones provided to migrants and border crossers were part of the administration’s “alternative to detention” program at the border.
There are nearly 180,000 undocumented immigrants in the United States being monitored with traceable devices, according to reports.
The phones, Psaki said, provided migrants the ability monitored by officials using “telephonic” technology — matching a voice print and requiring migrants to call once a week to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
She said tablets and smartphones could also be used to monitor border crossers using “facial matching” and GPS monitoring.
Psaki explained the program was “all part” of the Biden administration’s effort to track migrants coming into the country without having to detain them.
When asked if the administration was concerned about migrants just throwing the phone away, Psaki replied, “Do you have a record of people throwing phones away?”
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Make it stop.....
They have surpassed a terrifying nightmare into a terrifying fairytale in regards to running the country where I am a citizen.
Do they get free crack pipes too? 🤪
Be assured, this entire Administration is filled top to bottom with clueless idiots.
Coming to an election near you.
We’re being led around by twisted psychopaths with bad intentions.
Anybody who thinks Trump or anyone else for that matter is going to fix this is delusional.
We’re so far past the event horizon it ain’t funny.
I predict that they will allow iPhone voting come next November.
✔️
Bingo. We’re way past politics.
I suppose it wouldn’t be so bad if the phones were programmed only to call and receive calls from ICE and couldn’t be ‘rooted’, and to aggressively track the illegals, but you know they won’t be so limited. They will be watching Netflix, playing Candy Crush and calling all their friends and relatives, etc.
Oh, OK...
Walk into the Capitol to protest a stolen election....1 year in the Gulag followed by a harsh sentence
Walk into the United States with an armed gang...get a free phone, transportation to wherever you want, and check in with a timid government whenever you feel like it
Equal Justice in America
Great price, but that's a 2G phone, and 3G died last month.
The feds are probably handing out new iphones. Nothing is too good for all those new Democrat voters.
white house proves the kung flu is a scam...
again...
Psaki replied, “Do you have a record of people throwing phones away?”
Reply: “No. Like the program itself, the Biden administration has not released any information on thrown away cellphones. But we can certainly drop a FOIA request with DHS demanding information on the “cellphone/tablet/laptop for illegals” program. Then we can report the details and determine how carefully the department is “monitoring” the “irregular immigrants” in their “alternative to detention” arrangements. And we’ll be glad to sue for the information in federal court, if necessary.”
I’ve been getting 10-12 spam calls a day since January. WTF is up with that? They’re all on silent mode or I’d have gone postal by now.
Then there’d be no need to have to buy them phones with taxpayer money, you moron!!!
BTW Jen, do you have to be brain dead to work in DC?”
Those are all great ideas, but you’d have to have a press corps that actually cared about this issue. They don’t. Of course, that would change in a heartbeat if Trump or another Republican was POTUS. 🤬
2000? Try 15-20000...a day.
“An RFID chip implantation?”
And about 3 to 4 ounces of C4.
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