{"id":70189,"date":"2026-03-27T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/ice-doubled-its-use-of-ankle-monitors-for-legal-immigrants-in-the-past-year-a-very-harmful-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:38","slug":"ice-doubled-its-use-of-ankle-monitors-for-legal-immigrants-in-the-past-year-a-very-harmful-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/ice-doubled-its-use-of-ankle-monitors-for-legal-immigrants-in-the-past-year-a-very-harmful-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE doubled its use of ankle monitors for legal immigrants in the past year: \u2018A very harmful phenomenon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency uses devices, which are uncomfortable and interfere with employment, to push people to self-deport, advocates say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For five years, an asylum-seeking woman attended routine check-ins with immigration authorities without issue. At her most recent appointment in October, she was unexpectedly ordered to strap on an ankle monitor, according to her attorney, Deepa Bijpuria.<\/p>\n<p>Bijpuria, a supervising attorney in the immigration unit of Legal Aid DC, described the client as a single mom who fled her home country because of severe domestic violence, escaping while pregnant with her young daughter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/immigration-ice-ankle-monitors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency uses devices, which are uncomfortable and interfere with employment, to push people to self-deport, advocates say Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox For five years, an asylum-seeking woman attended routine check-ins with immigration authorities without issue. At her most recent appointment in October, she was &#8230; <a title=\"ICE doubled its use of ankle monitors for legal immigrants in the past year: \u2018A very harmful phenomenon\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/ice-doubled-its-use-of-ankle-monitors-for-legal-immigrants-in-the-past-year-a-very-harmful-phenomenon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE doubled its use of ankle monitors for legal immigrants in the past year: \u2018A very harmful phenomenon\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}