ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Source: theintercerpt.com
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
Sam Biddle October 31 2025, 8:04 p.m.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country, according to a procurement document reviewed by The Intercept. Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive monetary bonuses depending on how successfully they track down their targets and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.
According to the document, which solicits information from interested contractors for a potentially forthcoming contract opportunity, companies hired by ICE will be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate, with further assignments provided in increments of 10,000 up to 1,000,000.
The solicitation says ICE is considering monetary bonuses paid out based on performance.
The solicitation says ICE is exploring an incentive based pricing structure to encourage quick results, with monetary bonuses paid out based on performance. For example, ICE says contractors might get paid a bonus for identifying a persons correct address on the first try or finding 90 percent of its targets within a set timeframe. (ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
The document closely resembles a plan reportedly circulated by a group of military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO and Trump ally Erik Prince..........................
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/ice-plans-cash-rewards-for-private-bounty-hunters-to-locate-and-track-immigrants/
Oh crap--Erik Prince is involved!!
Photo from the article:
Link to tweet
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation effort in US history, vowing to ultimately deport all of the foreigners living in the country without permission. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Can the moral arc bend faster, please?
Lonestarblue
(13,127 posts)Texas vigilantes monitoring the border have frequently wounded and even murdered people crossing the border. Considering how bad the ICE goons are, I cant imagine the dregs theyll find as vigilantes.
Dave Bowman
(6,264 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,832 posts)dalton99a
(91,208 posts)doc03
(38,654 posts)into ICE and get paid. Sounds harmless.
underpants
(193,927 posts)At first when it was completely lawless, neighbors could settle grudges or just take neighbors stuff by killing them. You and a group of people could basically create your own little fiefdom.
Remember, in some spots the US Army set up safe drop spots for bodies so they wouldnt just stuff them down manhole covers. The sewage systems were getting clogged up.
Later on we were paying for information. There were many reports of people making money off just giving a name and location of someone as being insurgents. Out of the blue everyday people were swept up with some ending up in the Bagram air base nightmare.
Walleye
(43,236 posts)So our tax money will be going directly to these thugs as a reward for beating up women and children. Wonderful.
underpants
(193,927 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 1, 2025, 10:06 AM - Edit history (1)
This has footballs of cash ala Iraq written all over it
Walleye
(43,236 posts)70sEraVet
(5,121 posts)The opportunities for criminals are literally without limits, now that a criminal enterprise is running the country.
Dave Bowman
(6,264 posts)sop
(16,905 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,280 posts)They have no other way to define their search. They don't have access to govt records or police files. They can't demand papers to prove status.
See an illegal? Turn him in and let ICE sort them out. What a potential mess.
underpants
(193,927 posts)
surfered
(10,347 posts)Turbineguy
(39,643 posts)underpants
(193,927 posts)More than the FBI DEA and ATF combined.
They are going have to OVERpay to ward off the potential for blackmail and extortion thats literally built into this. Ridiculous.
Joinfortmill
(19,542 posts)The new Nuremberg Trials are coming.
Paladin
(32,042 posts)And a Nuremberg Trials framework is already more than justified.
ashredux
(2,810 posts)He got a great tan down in the Caribbean, Im gonna take that SOB out now and Im turning him in. I dont care he was born in Indiana,His dog keeps shitting in my yard.
Welcome to the new USA
underpants
(193,927 posts)As I posted above, happened aaaaalll the time in Iraq.
HarryM
(439 posts)Malaria tRump, she came to the US under false pretenses. Therefore she is an "illegal" alien.
crud
(1,149 posts)These folks are not geniuses but they are something completely nazi like. This is not gonna go very well.
PatSeg
(51,507 posts)who are desperate for cash and as the economy worsens, there will probably be more.
moniss
(8,410 posts)before the mid-terms and 2028.
dalton99a
(91,208 posts)republianmushroom
(22,096 posts)The republican Gestapo.
Hekate
(100,130 posts)Police state? We are far down that road.
Ping Tung
(4,027 posts)Bayard
(27,818 posts)Reports of men posing as ICE agents to get into people's houses will magnify by a factor of 10.
yellow dahlia
(4,029 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,049 posts)Wonder Why
(6,378 posts)Hotler
(13,621 posts)His voters are chomping at the bit to use guns on the rest of us. Arm yourselves, Protect yourself and family against MAGA door kickers.