A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created “disappearances” on US soil, due to the “increasingly unreliable” online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian.
The lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, are urging that the DHS inspector general’s office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “online detainee locator system” (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system.
“Since January 2025, that system has grown increasingly unreliable,” the lawmakers, including Senator Ben Ray Luján and House representatives Veronica Escobar and Lauren Underwood, say in the letter. “Without a functional locator system, DHS is effectively creating ‘disappearances’ on US soil, and we urge the DHS office of inspector general (OIG) to investigate this matter.”
Another strongly worded letter.
And you expect them to do …what? Idiot voters gave both houses of Congress, the White House, and effectively the military and supreme court to the GOP. Are the Democrats supposed to mob and attack DC with overwhelming power? Why don’t YOU?
Why do you act like nearly half of the most powerful people in our government have nothing they could do? There are tons of options, they just don’t use them.
It would be nice if they’d stop cooperating with Republicans every step of the way, for one.
I dunno. I thought our party leaders might try to organize some sort of resistance besides just rubber stamping everything they do. Maybe start organizing or something useful?
I think for now, both you and I will continue to complain about it online to distract everyone.
I thought it was called kidnapping.
Late to the party. Weak. Pointless. Useless. But fuck me, do they try, really really hard to make themselves sound like they’re doing something.
Nothing changes through purely peaceful protest. Labor Rights and Civil Rights were both won through bloodshed.
