ICE is using a tracking app to identify people who can easily be deported - then arrest them [View all]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 11 June 2025 14:30 EDT


ICE agents are reportedly using a new mapping app to track down migrants living illegally in the U.S who can be easily deported to meet Donald Trump’s aggressive quotas.

The app, an early version of which was known as Alien Tracker or ATRAC, allows agents and officers to view areas around the country with higher concentrations of people under deportation orders, making them more vulnerable to detention.

Information about more than 700,000 individuals is recorded on the app and is available in a “baseball-card-style format,” according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The Times reports that the app was launched with the help of Elon Musk and DOGE, before the billionaire’s exit from the department late last month.

According to documents seen by the outlet and accounts from ICE officials in Florida, the app also allows officers to identify immigrants with criminal convictions, further increasing the chances of a swift removal.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-immigrants-arrests-government-database-b2768278.html