‘Constantly afraid’: immigrants on
life under the US government’s eye
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/9/2022 8:52:20 AM
Macarena had just put on a pair of skinny jeans when her phone rang. On the other end of the line was an employee from BI Inc, the private contractor tracking Macarena’s whereabouts on behalf of US immigration authorities. The employee had received an alert that the ankle monitor Macarena was wearing had been tampered with, Macarena recalled them saying.(Snip)The US government program was launched in 2004 as a “humane” alternative to detention for immigrants waiting for their cases to be heard in court, a surveillance system that was supposed to keep track of people in the program while helping them access social services.
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Most of my life, I assumed that we elected serious politicians and appointed competent people to deal with the country’s complex problems -- the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the economy, immigration, terrorism, foreign policy, natural disasters, etc. -- major problems that required competent people, serious about addressing (and fixing) the issues.
That was then, this is now. (snip) The Peter Principle says that people rise to the level of their incompetence. (snip) It’s difficult to believe that Biden could find someone less competent than himself, but he did. Among the vast numbers of very unintelligent politicians, VP Kamala is perhaps the least competent
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Ankle monitors inconvenience illegal aliens who are here working under the table and "accessing social services" such as free school and healthcare services for their children, and food stamps and other benefits gifted to any of them born in New America. The only solution I see is to cancel this cruel $2.2 billion monitoring program and return the victims to their homelands, posthaste.