Department of Homeland Security agencies have issued 255,602 smartphones to illegal aliens during fiscal year 2022, according to data on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website.
The phones are trackable and the alien is responsible for checking in with ICE on a regular basis, often by sending in a geo-tagged photo of themselves.
The cost for the 255,602 phones and their accompanying technology is $245,377 per day—almost $1,000 per illegal alien per day. Over a year, that’s $89.5 million.
The majority of the phones were issued to single adults.
ICE has failed to provide any data on the compliance rate of the smartphone program or on how many aliens have absconded from it, despite repeated requests by The Epoch Times….