The Miami Herald reported today that immigrants awaiting deportationwould now be confined depending on the level of risk whether it be a flight risk, or the nature of an immigrant’s criminal record under a new plan being proposed by DHS Secretary Napolitano.
The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) is looking into former hotels, nursing homes and other sites would be used to hold non-violent and/or, non-criminal immigrants as part of a larger plan to overhaul the immigration detention system. The proposed sites would seem to reduce the costs of detaining immigrants, which amounted to approximately $ 2 billion last year.
USICE officials will submit to Congress in the next few weeks a plan for using alternatives to detention. For example, in the Orlando jurisdiction along with 7 other jurisdictions, USICE officials supervise immigrants under the ISAP and ESR Programs depending on level of risk.
Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP)
The USICE contracts ISAP case specialists closely supervise participating aliens to ensure successful completion of the program, using a variety of effective strategies such as electronic monitoring via radio frequency (RF) and global position satellite (GPS), unannounced home visits, and telephonic reporting requirements.
This program requires the immigrant to comply with a variety of activities such as local office visits, employment verification, curfews, and travel document information collection.
Enhanced Supervision/Reporting (ESR) Program
The Enhanced Supervision/Reporting (ESR) Program is similar to ISAP because supervision specialists supervise participants by using electronic monitoring, residence verification, home visits, in-person reporting and travel document information collection.
ESR is different from ISAP because it requires fewer home visits, in-person reporting visits and, it doesn’t incorporate community referral requirements.
This program also requires the contractor to enroll participants during large-scale ICE operations such as worksite enforcement and large-scale fugitive operations.
