‘Unnecessary, Wasteful;” Rights Groups Balk at ICE’s New $7.2 Million Migrant Facial Recognition Contract

More recently, this a month a group of rights groups, including Community Justice Exchange, Just Futures Law, and Mijente field a lawsuit against DHS seeking more information about the ISAP program in light of swelling enrollment figures

“Electronic monitoring is not an alternative to detention—it is a technological extension,” the groups wrote in their lawsuit. Speaking with Gizmodo, Fox Chan echoed this sentiment and claimed the $7.2 million worth of funds allocated for the Trust Stamps contract would be better allocated to more robust interventions.

“These invasive tools solve a problem we don’t have, while making taxpayers pick up the tab,” Fox Chan said. “We need money for resettlement, not tracking.”