ICE developing program to give ID cards to illegal immigrants, as border crisis rages

ICE is creating an ID card for migrants as part of a program to modernize documentation given to migrants encountered at the southern border and released into the US.

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Migrants who are apprehended at the southern border and are not removed are instead released into the U.S. as their asylum cases are heard by the U.S. immigration system -- a process which can take years. They are released with a range of different paperwork depending on the migrant’s situation.  

The new ID card will contain a photograph, biographic identifiers and what ICE calls "cutting-edge security features to the mutual benefit of the government and noncitizens."