Julia Ainsley is homeland security correspondent for NBC News and covers the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
When an Afghan national on the FBI terrorist watchlist was arrested last Thursday after having spent nearly a year in the U.S., immigration officials said he had been enrolled in a program that tracked his location via ankle monitor, mobile app or telephone. But the man's participation in the monitoring program, known as Alternatives to Detention, lasted only a little over two weeks, NBC News has learned. Mohammad Kharwin, 48, is believed to have then spent 10 months in the U.S.
It also raises questions about the Alternatives to Detention program, which the Biden administration has vastly expanded as a way to keep tabs on hundreds of thousands of migrants in the U.S. awaiting immigration court proceedings. Republicans in Congress, who oppose the program, have cut funding to it, forcing ICE to drop migrants from being monitored, often as soon as they make their first check-ins at ICE offices.
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