ICE Has Script to Refuse Help to People Looking for Missing Loved Ones

Summary

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deliberately kept certain detainees out of a public database to make them harder to find. The New York Times reports that tens of thousands of people with final deportation orders have been hidden from the database since September, confirming earlier media reports . This policy change has made it almost impossible for lawyers and family members to find their loved ones’ locations, and ICE’s contractors were given a script to use on callers informing them that the detainees’ locations were no longer available. ICE’s detention system encompasses…

Description from New Republic.