Border Security Expo in El Paso

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – With the variety of yearly migrant encounters in the millions now, federal companies are more and more turning to know-how to handle the flows.

At U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officers are utilizing smartphones with face-recognition know-how to maintain observe of 1000’s of migrants within the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program.

“We have smart-link phones – they look just like iPhones, but without call or internet capability – to communicate with our officers. The face recognition allows individuals to communicate with our office nationwide,” stated Mary De Anda-Ybarra, director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in El Paso. “It eliminates the lines we have at some of our offices and allows for them to check in” on time.

ICE can home as much as 30,000 migrants in its detention facilities nationwide. The facilities are holding solely 21,000 now due to staffing and different points, so increasingly migrants are being positioned on ATD. The program beforehand relied on the migrants sporting ankle bracelets to maintain observe of their location or on the migrant bodily reporting to a authorities workplace.

In addition to government-issued cell telephones, ICE is experimenting with a smart-link watch, which works the identical because the cellphone and has the face-recognition characteristic however is extra compact and may be worn wherever.

“They’re being looked at to do the same thing but without having to carry of phone or use a GPS monitor. The watches are better because they’re smaller and I understand cost-wise they will be beneficial to us as well,” De Anda-Ybarra stated.

ICE was among the many dozens of presidency companies and personal contractors that participated on this 12 months’s Border Security Expo on the Judson F. Williams Convention Center. The honest included contractors exhibiting off synthetic intelligence safety cameras and a large number of safety devices.

Axon attended the expo to indicate off an built-in system for legislation enforcement that prompts a police officer’s physique digicam the moment he reaches for his gun or grabs his Taser.

“What makes us different is that all of our products work together. Once an incident starts, all our cameras are automatically recording and notifying your local police station that there’s an incident developing,” an organization official instructed Border Report on Thursday. “This is used by law enforcement in the United States and internationally as well.”

The expo wrapped up on Thursday.