{"id":37626,"date":"2021-07-13T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37626"},"modified":"2021-07-13T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:39:18","slug":"dhs-funding-package-pours-millions-into-migrant-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37626","title":{"rendered":"DHS funding package pours millions into migrant surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill for Department of Homeland Security funding Tuesday that would allocate millions toward technologies for surveilling immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, passed through the Democratic-controlled committee on a 33-24 party-line vote, would allocate $475 million to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the agency\u2019s Alternatives To Detention (ATD) program, well above what the Biden administration requested in its 2022 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The program has drawn criticism for expanding the number of immigrants under ICE\u2019s supervision, with detractors saying it has caused them physical and emotional harm.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals in the ATD are subject to unscheduled visits, tracked by ankle monitors and required to do check-ins with agents using voice or facial recognition systems, according to a recent report by the Just Futures Law Center and Mijente.<\/p>\n<p>The funding bill also provides millions in cybersecurity funds, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency set to get almost $400 million above its fiscal year 2020 funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Appropriations Committee advanced a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37627,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626\/revisions\/37627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}