Home Secretary Suella Braverman has refused to rule out using electronic GPS tags to track fleeing migrants.
The Times had reported that the Home Office is looking at the plans as part of efforts to stop migrants who disappear from detention centres.
Ms Braverman has said the Home Office is considering a "range of options" to sure the UK has a level of control over who enters the"We've just enacted a landmark piece of legislation in the form of our Illegal Migration Act. That empowers us to detain those who arrive here illegally and thereafter to swiftly remove them to a safe country like Rwanda," she said.
The Times said officials are considering it as a way to prevent migrants who cannot be housed in limited detention sites from absconding."We need to exercise a level of control of people if we're to remove them from the United Kingdom," Ms Braverman told Sky. "We are considering a range of options. We have a couple of thousand detention places in our existing removal capacity.
"We will be working intensively to increase that but it's clear we're exploring a range of options, all options, to ensure that we have that level of control over people so that they can flow through our systems swiftly to enable us to thereafter remove them from the United Kingdom."
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