Asylum-seeking families

WHO

insert the

US

border

without permission

want to

be subject to

GPS monitoring and a curfew

at their home

and will be deported if they fail an initial asylum screening

in the U.S

under a new immigration and customs enforcement program coming into effect soon,

an agency official told the Times on Wednesday.

Under the plan, known as Family Expedited Removal Management, migrant families will be ordered to appear for an initial asylum screening, known as a credible fear interview, in the cities they are going to. a

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new policies from the Biden administration restricting asylum to those who cross a third country and do not seek protection there will be applied to them.

If the families fail the screening, ICE will attempt to evict the family.

There are implications for family units, said the ICE official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the program before it is publicly revealed. If they’re not eligible to stay in the US, we’re going to make sure they’re removed.

President Biden’s

administration is in the middle

prepare for processing

the end of Title 42, allowing border agents to quickly deport migrants under pandemic-era rules later this week. Officials have long been concerned about the predicted spike in encounters at the border when the three-year-old policy expires.

In the coming days, ICE will place a number of families heading to Newark, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago into the new FERM program.

The curfew is expected to run from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m

A

family member wants

must wear a GPS monitor, such as

ankle band.

Families who do not show up for the screenings or do not cooperate with ICE to leave the country may be picked up and detained at hotels, the ICE official said.

We are meant to lean on compliance, the official said.

Earlier this year, the Biden administration said it was considering all options for families crossing the border, including the possibility of holding families in detention centers. In recent weeks, the head of ICE and later Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the government had no plans to return those detention centers for families.

We do not intend to hold families. As I said, we will use alternatives to detention, including some innovations in that regard, and we will use improved alternatives to detention on a case-by-case basis as warranted, he said at a press conference in late April.

The Biden administration is increasingly relying on so-called alternatives to detention.

Immigrant advocates and some Democratic politicians have criticized the expansion of the alternative to detention program, saying it is a form of surveillance and

psychologically harmful.

Last year, ICE rolled out a pilot testing a curfew approach for some migrants.

Before the Biden administration stopped locking up families, ICE was holding families in two facilities in Texas. Families have since been released in the US, and the government has placed some in expedited trial.

Biden tweeted during his presidential campaign in June 2020: Children should be immediately released from ICE detention with their parents. This is pretty simple and I can’t believe I have to say it: families belong together.

Democratic senators urged him not to bring back the practice after reports it was being considered.

We understand that your administration faces major challenges, especially in light of Congress’s failure to pass immigration reform to control the influx of asylum seekers arriving at our southern border, the senators wrote.

However, the recent past has taught us that family detention is both morally reprehensible and ineffective as an immigration management tool. We look forward to working closely with your administration on more thoughtful and humane responses to such challenges.