ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants
6 months ago
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- ICE is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants, offering monetary bonuses based on performance.
- Contractors may receive bundles of information on 10,000 to 1,000,000 immigrants at a time for tracking.
- The plan includes 'skip-tracing' methods and digital surveillance to confirm immigrants' addresses.
- Surveillance tools, including mobile phone location data, will be used to verify locations.
- The proposal resembles a plan previously pushed by military contractors, including Erik Prince.
- ICE will provide contractors with case data, location data, social media info, and photos.
- The initiative is part of a broader authoritarian trend under Trump's administration, according to The Intercept.