The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice) plans to open a new call center to help law enforcement agencies comply with law enforcement agencies.
According to A request of the Department of the Department of Twenty for information (RFI) notice was released this week, the ice stated that there is an “immediate need to build and maintain the technology” ADVANTED technology “.
The agency says the Center’s purpose is to “Support Partnerships in the field … focused on finding non-conflict alien children.”
The facility, set to open in Nashville, Tennessee, will operate 24 hours a day and is expected to handle between 6,000 and 7,000 calls per day. The document does not specify why Nashville was chosen for the Call Center. ICE expects the center to open in March and reach full operational capacity by June.
In the RFI, ice also asked potential contractors to outline what types of “enabling technologies” they recommend “extract data from our systems to maximize call time.”
In response to a Guardian request for comment, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLughlin said in an emailed statement: “Without your reporting.
Ice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In addition to the planned Call Center, CORECIVIC INC, the second largest private prison in the country, is full of Nashville. Since Donald Trump took office in January, the company reported strong financial results, announcing $538.2m in earnings for the second quarter of this year, a 9.8% increase over the same period last year.
The flow of profits for private prison companies, along with technology companies like Palanirir, which recently acquired a $30M contract With the ice to build a database aimed at the haste to wear and deportation in a wasteful attack on immigration across the country. These actions have provoked fierce backlash from the public, democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups alike.
Reports of the planned ice call come as the Trump Administration appears to be reviving the practice of family reunions in a renewed effort to identify the Guardian. Immigration lawyers and former officials say the move is intended to pressure high-profile immigrants and asylum seekers to leave the US voluntarily.
Meanwhile, in a memo obtained by the Guardian last month, the Trump administration plans to offer migrant children $2,500 as a “one-time restructuring of support.
The latest escalation builds on policies from Trump’s first term, which include a “Zero-tomerance” procedure ordered by the Department of Justice to prosecute anyone who crosses the border without legal status. That policy has led to the separation of at least 5,500 migrant children from their parents and guardians at the US-Mexico border.
After widespread backlash from the public, as well as from both Democrats and Republicans, Trump signed an executive order in 2018 to formally end the family separation policy.