{"id":77079,"date":"2026-08-06T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/ice-is-now-tracking-nearly-54000-immigrants-via-ankle-monitors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:57:31","slug":"ice-is-now-tracking-nearly-54000-immigrants-via-ankle-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/ice-is-now-tracking-nearly-54000-immigrants-via-ankle-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the device<\/p>\n<p>The US is tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors as part of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) electronic surveillance program, according to private prison corporation The Geo Group. Early last year, just 17,000 immigrants were wearing the devices..<\/p>\n<p>The Geo Group owns BI Inc, the company that runs ICE\u2019s intensive supervision appearance program (ISAP), and reported the numbers in its earnings call on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/06\/ice-tracks-thousands-of-immigrants-ankle-monitors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the device The US is tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors as part of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) electronic surveillance program, according to private prison corporation The Geo Group. Early last &#8230; <a title=\"ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/06\/ice-is-now-tracking-nearly-54000-immigrants-via-ankle-monitors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079","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=77079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}