ICE last week stopped listing detainees with final removal orders in the Online Detainee Locator System, says immigration analyst Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. Lawyers, families and consulates use that public database to find where someone is held. ICE has not explained the change.
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As of last week, anyone in ICE custody with a final order of removal is dropped from the Online Detainee Locator System
Attributed in the story to AP reporting flagged by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick; corroborated by AP via US News, LA Times/AP and MPR News in the sources, though ICE did not confirm or deny.
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Reporter Noah Hurowitz says a woman he is writing about has already vanished from the locator
Explicitly attributed to Hurowitz's own post; a single named case-level check with no independent verification.
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The removals from the locator affect thousands of detainees with final removal orders
AP (via US News and LA Times) reports 65,000+ in custody in early July with roughly 30% holding final orders and nearly 16,000 final-order bookings in July; the story's implicit scale rests on that AP estimate.
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The policy applies to all detainees with final removal orders, without exception
The story's blanket 'anyone in ICE custody' wording omits the facility carve-outs tied to court orders that AP/LA Times and India Today report; this is the desk's overgeneralization.