ICE Pitches a Helpline... for Child Tracking, Not Welfare
ICE, the agency notorious for family separations under the previous administration (and continued under current one), is exploring a contract for a call center to help police locate immigrant children. Bloomberg's piece suggests this move raises 'advocates' fears' about increased family separations. (A fear, apparently, the Biden administration hasn't gotten around to alleviating since inheriting
the apparatus.) We're left to assume this is about 'welfare checks,' not expanding the surveillance state on children. This isn't just a new contract; it's a chilling echo of every time the state weaponizes 'child protection' to exert control. Remember when HHS was housing thousands of kids in detention facilities? Or the 'tender age shelters'? The U.S. has a long, ugly history of separating
Indigenous and Black families under the guise of 'best interests.' Now, immigrant children are next on the assembly line, rebranded as targets for a new 'track and trace' program. The real question isn't whether advocates fear more separations, but when ICE plans to start issuing 'missing' posters with children's faces on milk cartons.