The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with a controversial new method to keep better track of immigrants who are applying to remain in the United States. It is requiring aliens in eight cities to wear electronic monitors 24 hour...

Sidebar articles are not the source article.

Translation: You can only read that part of the link I want you to read, and nothing else.

Where did I say that they were all illegal immigrants? (Hint: I didn't.) So this issue of what is and is not an illegal immigrant is a strawman and a red herring. Finally, you are pretty much accepting my claims that these people are not your average run of the mill immigrant.

Further your focusing on a single individual is misleading. Sure, some of teh people in this kind of a situation do not "disappear". I've admitted to this fact. So pointing it out as if it is some sort of argument against what I have written is just incoherent nonsense. This is like noticing a head outcome from flipping a coin 100 times and then saying the coin only comes up heads.

Sidebar articles are not the source article. They did not even relate to this particular monitoring program now in effect in 8 cities on 1,700 immigrants.

How do you know Jeralyn? Do you have a secret source you aren't sharing with us? Have you called somebody or are you just making stuff up to fit your position?

The source article referenced in TalkLeft said exactly what I said it did—that these 1700 had not been charged with crimes and are awaiting action on petitions to remain in the U.S.

Yes, and further digging at the link you provided and a few minutes googling suggests quite strongly that most if not all of them are in the middle of removal procedings. If you don't know for sure they aren't and given all the other evidence suggesting this is what the program is, then you should have the integrity to present such information and not hide behind rhetorical bravo sierra.

The NPR program also pointed out that the statistics that "85-90 percent" of the aliens *fled* is a false statistic. What the report actually said was that those aliens were unaccounted for, whether through bureaucratic bungling (never heard of that with the INS, eh steve?) or through flight. The fact of the matter is that no one knows how many were *flight risks* and how many just slipped through the cracks.

You again failed to address the individual who was profiled in the NPR piece, who had to wear a bracelet after MISSING A MID-DAY CHECKUP BECAUSE HE WAS IN A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS MEETING!

Again, I have no problem with deporting *illegal* aliens, building 20 foot walls at the borders to keep out terrorists, etc., but this doesn't sound like that at all.

I didn't claim they were all illegal aliens. I think you need to do something about that reading comprehension problem.

Oh and TalkLeft endorsed the ankle bracelets not too long ago. See the link in the second update.

Don't you just love the irony?

Actually, that's a claim without backing. If they are *appealing* a deportation order, they are hardly *illegal,* considering they are participating in the *legal* process. The particular individual in the NPR piece was neither a criminal, nor an illegal, nor a flight risk (since he owns a home and is employed as an assistant manager of a restaurant).

Your justification sounds more lame the farther you dig.

And this is as a social conservative.

Sarah Barry fled Liberia's civil war in the early 1990s. She's now awaiting a decision on her appeal of a government deportation order.--emphasis added

Sure some of the people will be allowed to stay, I'm sure and probably have the anklets removed.

It is funny how some on the Left decry INS and HS failure to monitor aliens who have temporary visas then there is this kind of criticism of a program to monitor people in removal proceedings.

"In 1996, the Immigration and Naturalization Service asked Vera to establish a supervised release project for people in removal proceedings in New York City."

http://www.vera.org/publications/publications_5.asp?publication_id=12

I find it hard to support such a program - unless the only other option is prison.