SacBee:

The federal government wants to deport convicted felon Patricia Ann Law but freed the Santa Clara woman from jail last month anyway.

Law, 52, is among the first Northern Californians to participate in an experimental program intended to keep immigrants out of jail while their deportation and asylum cases proceed.

Though Law must wear an electronic ankle bracelet and observe a strict curfew, she says she's grateful to be out of detention and close to her family.

Genoveva Noriega Perez and her husband, Salvador Perez, are decidedly less enthusiastic...

[...whining... ...whining from a lawyer... more whining...]

...The need for better tracking is obvious, officials say: Roughly 80 percent of the immigrants who aren't in detention when given deportation orders disappear...