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Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« on: February 11, 2016, 07:10:26 pm »
San Antonio - On average Americans pay about $125 per month for their cell phone and a contract for data management. However federal contractors are issuing free cell phones to illegal immigrants who cross the Texas border.

Federal contractors ostensibly issue the phones as a way for illegal immigrants to contact case managers and reach their US destinations. Officials describe the issuance of subsidize phones to illegal immigrants as a less restrictive alternative to detention programs that is designed to make sure that low-risk illegal immigrant families with pending cases show up for court. They say the phones are not used to track or monitor immigrants but that they are a social safety net.

Meanwhile, the volume of illegal immigrants crossing the border illegally has skyrocketed this year. More precisely, 24,616 illegal border crossers were caught at the southern border from October through January, which is nearly triple the amount that rush the border in the same period last year. However, instead of being grateful of taxpayer’s investment, immigration activists are complaining and condemning officials for invading their client's privacy. "It is concerning whether the women are being tracked through their phones and whether their communications with counsel are confidential," said Jonathan Ryan, executive director of Raices, a San Antonio-based immigrant legal advocacy group.

Yaneth Guevara Leyva is a typical illegal immigrant with a pending asylum case and recipient of an Galaxy 4 smartphone Obama phone. She received her phone, complete with voice and Internet service, two weeks ago after authorities released her from a Texas detention center. She and her two children, ages 7 and 2, are now in a family case management program as opposed to being stopped at the border. A large number of illegal immigrants entering the border are young males.

Illegal immigrants like Guevara are surprised that they are greeted at the border with a gift like a US taxpayer subsidized smartphone that they could ill afford on the other side of the border.

Guevara, who has a pending asylum case, said she received a Galaxy 4 smartphone complete with voice and Internet service after she and her family, who hail from from El Salvador, were released from one of the Texas detention centers two weeks ago. She said she was told that she was being placed in a family case management program along with her children, ages 7 and 2.

"They told me I was selected because I have small children and for my case, because I was a victim of domestic violence," Guevara said. "I was surprised because I thought I would get ankle monitors."

For years, advocates for illegal immigrants entering the US across its southern border have made access to cellphones available to immigrant families so that they could call and send photos to people they plan to meet up with in the US.

"One of the first things they always wanted to get was cellphones before undertaking the long journey," Ryan said, but those who buy phones often cannot afford the bills that follow.

However, after finding out the subsidized cell phones were part of the government subcontractor GEO Care program that received in $11 million contract from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, illegal immigrant advocates are complaining. This time advocates are casting aspersions on the GEO Care program, suggesting that it is tracking movements of illegal immigrants in the US.

"Considering the number of entities monitoring cellphones in general, it's hard to believe they're not being tracked at all," Ryan said.

Illegal immigration advocates became suspicious upon learning that the GEO Group, based in Boca Raton, Fla., issues ankle monitors to immigrant families and runs eight immigrant detention centers, including the Texas family detention center where Guevara was held.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/illegal-immigration-advocates-complain-about-free-smart-phones/article/457232

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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2016, 07:32:08 pm »
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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2016, 07:53:48 pm »
Reading this article brought to mind questions that I've been having - and I heard Donald Trump talk about it the other night - you see pictures of these immigrant refugees that are flooding Europe, and how many of them are carrying smartphones?

Trump talked about it - how can these people who are ostensibly fleeing their homelands with nothing but the designer clothes on their backs afford smartphones?  Where are they having the bills sent and how are they paying them? 

Good questions.

Now, I'm reading about immigrants HERE being furnished with smartphones courtesy of the US taxpayer. 

What the hell is up with that?

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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2016, 08:02:12 pm »
Officials describe the issuance of subsidize phones to illegal immigrants as a less restrictive alternative to detention programs that is designed to make sure that low-risk illegal immigrant families with pending cases show up for court. They say the phones are not used to track or monitor immigrants but that they are a social safety net.


This is ludicrous.  Talking out of both sides of their mouth?  The only semi-half-assed reasonable justification for this is that you are handing them a tracking device - though a couple of black market transactions later you have no idea who actually has what device.
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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2016, 08:11:44 pm »
who is the owner of the company that makes smartphones?
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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2016, 08:13:12 pm »
Sounds like they are getting better phones than most Americans have. For free.

The so called 'Obamaphone', which is a phone normally given to people on food stamps, is also free. But, it is a bare-bones phone with no internet and no memory.

Free college, free housing, free food, free furniture, free clothes, plus a monthly stipend. It must be great to be illegal in America.

BTW: How are these guys going to "do the jobs that Americans won't", if the government is giving them everything they need for free?
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« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2016, 08:18:34 pm »

Free college, free housing, free food, free furniture, free clothes, plus a monthly stipend. It must be great to be illegal in America.


You'd think that we were actually recruiting them to come here...throwing in extra perks, like for job applicants deciding which job to take.  That we actually wanted to bring in more and more.

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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2016, 09:06:54 pm »
who makes smartphones?  who owns that company? obama donor? edit to add. do not own a cell phone. never have and never will, so i don't know a thing about them.
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Re: Illegal immigration advocates complain about free smart phones
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2016, 12:21:35 am »
Sounds like they are getting better phones than most Americans have. For free.

The so called 'Obamaphone', which is a phone normally given to people on food stamps, is also free. But, it is a bare-bones phone with no internet and no memory.

Free college, free housing, free food, free furniture, free clothes, plus a monthly stipend. It must be great to be illegal in America.

BTW: How are these guys going to "do the jobs that Americans won't", if the government is giving them everything they need for free?

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You've got it.  Free Obamaphones for the Blacks in 2012.

Free Obamaphones for millions of illegal alien votes in 2016.

This nation can be sold for the cost of cell phones.  Quite a bargain.

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