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ICE Issues Smartphones to 255,602 Illegal Border-Crossers; Cost Is $89.5 Million a Year
Epoch Times ^ | October 11, 2022 | By Charlotte Cuthbertson

Posted on 10/11/2022 12:41:05 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: roadcat

ALL cellular devices that are on create a record of what towers they attach to. It’s how cellular networks function.

Smart, dumb, IoT, doesn’t matter. The carriers have the data natively. IT’s how the network operates - nothing sinister.


21 posted on 10/11/2022 1:19:34 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: ClearCase_guy

No need for them to report. Just follow the phone as it moves around the network.

Geotagging with photo just proves Rodrigo has the phone ‘there’ when the pic was taken.


22 posted on 10/11/2022 1:20:40 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: thegagline
I'm still using my iPhone 5. Why can't I have a new taxpayer funded smartphone?

Oh shut up and pay your taxes already!

23 posted on 10/11/2022 1:26:41 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Red Badger

The only thing this administration is good at is wasting tax payer money.


24 posted on 10/11/2022 1:32:19 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (.)
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To: RicocheT

If this phone Idea was such a good one, why did they not attach one on each of those rifles they sent to Mexico?


25 posted on 10/11/2022 1:33:37 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: hanamizu

Well they might need it to call 911 for free medical or free transportation. 🤔😠🐎💩


26 posted on 10/11/2022 1:38:00 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Blueflag
If they have smart phones, they can be tracked to within 10 feet

So what? With a reported over 255,000 phones being given out, who's going to do the tracking and why and then the necessary follow-up?

ICE has failed to provide any data on the compliance rate of the smartphone program or on how many aliens have absconded from it,

That tells you how successful your "tracking to within 10 feet really is..........LOL!

And an almost guarantee that within a year those phones will end up in the trash and the illegals will have their own phones via a friends and family plan.

Kinda like expecting the over two and a half million illegals who have entered this country in the past year and a half to actually show up for their immigration hearings........

27 posted on 10/11/2022 1:40:02 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Red Badger

Saw a news item this morning showing many illegals who’d crossed the border into Texas. Everyone carried a goody bag held by a drawstring. Wondered what was in the goody bags. I guess a cell phone is part of the answer.


28 posted on 10/11/2022 1:44:26 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Red Badger

Mine is old and scratched. The battery doesn’t last long. I’m going to Mexico and will sneak into the USA so I’ll get a new phone.


29 posted on 10/11/2022 1:57:56 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Kick every last democrat out of office! )
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To: Red Badger

Crime pays. Obviously. And with OUR Tax Dollars!


30 posted on 10/11/2022 2:00:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Red Badger

Anything these leftist can do to cripple, loot and harm America, they’re all in!


31 posted on 10/11/2022 2:22:22 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Blueflag
If they have smart phones, they can be tracked to within 10 feet, less if they also attach to a wifi access point.

The only reason anyone in government would want to track them, is if they wanted to give them more tax paid gifts, prizes and cash.

32 posted on 10/11/2022 2:25:23 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Red Badger

so we know where they are then...


33 posted on 10/11/2022 2:57:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Red Badger

I caught a flight from San Diego to Charleston a few weeks back. Fully 1/4 of the passengers were “new looking” immigrants with red folders full of paper work and new smart phones. All 20-40 year old males.


34 posted on 10/11/2022 3:00:53 PM PDT by TankerKC (Be first with the truth. )
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To: rktman

So we can track them to deport them, right? Right!?!!


35 posted on 10/11/2022 3:06:40 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: SPDSHDW

They probably have faraday pouches they keep them in when not in use.


36 posted on 10/11/2022 3:10:00 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Red Badger

They should plant chips in them and keep track of their social score. Oh wait, that’s us.


37 posted on 10/11/2022 3:16:17 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Blueflag
IT’s how the network operates - nothing sinister.

It is sinister. My point is that my tax dollars shouldn't be wasted on smart phones for illegal criminals - yes, they are criminals breaking into our home.

Put a dog collar on them with a tracking device, or inject them with a tracker bead like that is done with feral animals. Best thing would be to throw them back over the border or into the ocean. Sick of paying taxes that is mis-spent.

38 posted on 10/11/2022 5:28:23 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: rktman
Where do I sign up to get my free Obama foam…. Biden Fone????
39 posted on 10/11/2022 6:38:33 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: telescope115

He’s Cuban? Someone told me he is Greek based on his name, but I always suspected he was Hispanic.


40 posted on 10/11/2022 6:42:20 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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