On its Web site, ICE boasts a 99 percent appearance rate in immigration court for participants in its restrictive Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP). Yet records maintained by private contractors that administer ISAP show they were “unable to locate” 18 percent of 6,373 illegal immigrants who passed through the program between 2004 and the end of January. Five percent were re-arrested by ICE, records show.

Those who absconded were simply “terminated” from ISAP and not included in ICE’s nearly perfect court attendance rate, which includes only “active” participants, the records show. Carl Rusnok, an ICE spokesman, confirmed ICE’s methodology in calculating the appearance rates, but did not answer questions about whether ICE’s data mislead the public.

Houston Chronicle

Flaws found in options for illegal alien detention

Nearly one in five suspected illegal [aliens] who went through an Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensive monitoring program absconded while under supervision during the past five years, newly disclosed records show…

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