On March 24, 2022, Elkin Mayorga, a migrant from Colombia, illegally crossed the southern border and was arrested by Border Patrol near Yuma, Arizona. As was President Joe Biden’s policy at the time, instead of being detained or returned to Mexico, Mayorga was enrolled in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Alternatives to Detention program, the same program Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) wants to use to release all migrants into the country.

As part of ICE’s ATD program, Mayorga was fitted with an ankle bracelet, a device he still should be wearing today. Except Mayorga removed the bracelet just a month after being released into the country and, as is Biden’s policy, ICE then did nothing to track him down.