Vast immigration surveillance program in dire need of reform, lawmakers tell Biden administration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : BI signed a new five-year, $2.2bn exclusive contract to run Isap for Ice in 2020.
55% : About 182,000 immigrants are enrolled in the program today, according to Ice, making it the largest supervision program of any US law enforcement agency.
51% :BI referred all questions about privacy and data policies governing SmartLink to Ice.
45% : The lawmakers are also concerned about how BI collects and shares user data through SmartLink, the app it requires immigrants to use, saying its privacy policy is overly broad and that Ice and BI should be more transparent about what data they collect.
44% :Managing Isap on behalf of Ice is BI Inc, a subsidiary of the Geo Group, one of the US's largest private prison corporations.
43% : As the program exists today, immigrants enrolled can go home rather than remain detained after having sought asylum or having been detained, but they are assigned a "supervision" regime by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).
39% : DHS and Ice declined to comment.
38% : In their letter, the lawmakers charge that Ice is already excessively deploying Isap surveillance.

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