Missouri State Senator Pushes Migrant Bounty Hunters Legislation

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Proposed legislation to reward bounty hunters with $1,000 per deportation is getting traction nationwide, Missouri state senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis) told Newsweek. "I'm finding a tremendous amount of support. It's actually gaining support across the country." Note: In Missouri, 48.8% of adults have guns at home. Licenses in 2021: 113,351.

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"It will be state-sanctioned vigilantism." @hayesbrown.bsky.social on our #WorstOfTheWeek: newly-elected GOP Missouri State Senator David Gregory's proposed bill aimed at turning his constituents into bounty hunters by providing $1,000 to any one who turns in an undocumented migrant.

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-- AYMAN on MSNBC (@ayman.msnbc.com) December 14, 2024 at 9:09 PM

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In 2023, an estimated 1,300 people died from gun-related injuries in Missouri. Expect more if this idiotic legislation passes.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-19 01:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Not surprisingly it's Missouri. Slavery state.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-19 02:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Hi Laura. Indeed, a former slave state where the police shot and killed Michael Brown a decade ago in Ferguson. Missouri is just another homicidal, violent Red State my wife and I will never, ever visit.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-19 03:12 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 3

The yeehaw retro strain runs deep and broad through hillbilly America.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-19 06:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I have an illegal I'd like to report....

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-19 08:51 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

FYI Missouri was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise though slavery did continue Missouri until 1865.

#6 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-19 09:08 AM | Reply

FYI Missouri was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise though slavery did continue Missouri until 1865.

Posted by danni at 2025-02-19 09:08 AM | Reply

No it wasn't. Kansas was the Free State. Missouri was the slave state.

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-19 09:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Kansas was the Free State.

#7 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

Wow. They sure changed their minds.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-19 09:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Kansas is a ---- hole state full of quacks and liars.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-19 10:08 PM | Reply

*sigh* Missouri just can't help but be an embarrassment.

This is the same area where a church put out a recruitment call for young men to join their nascent militia as well as GWOT vets with combat, comms and medical experience to train and lead them. They claimed it was an "error" after the public responded less than favorably to the proposal.

There are too many guns in too many hands for this to go smoothly.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-20 01:02 AM | Reply

Those bounties may be the only way many(most?) people in that state are able to eat and pay rent once King Donald and President Musk pull the federal funds keeping that state afloat.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-20 11:49 AM | Reply

I'm gonna get me a licence to be a jerk and say I'm bounty hunting.

#12 | Posted by Tor at 2025-02-20 11:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I've read the bill. Without even getting into the issue or my opinion of the purpose of the proposal I'll just say it is very poorly crafted and does not seem like a serious piece of legislation. I think the particular senator pushing this is just using it as a means to draw attention to his name.

#13 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-02-20 01:46 PM | Reply

Viva Mexico! Don't send us back!

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-20 04:27 PM | Reply

I'm gonna get me a licence to be a jerk and say I'm bounty hunting.
#12 | POSTED BY TOR

You don't need a license.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-20 04:27 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Hypothetically if illegal migrants are in a special subsidized Section 8 arrangement with a corrupt landlord, how does the public ever determine and be made aware if such a deal exists? Properties and dwelling units are not normally listed as Section 8. The landlord gets the subsidy and the public pays. Is that the way it works?

#16 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-20 04:28 PM | Reply

No it wasn't. Kansas was the Free State. Missouri was the slave state.

#7 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

No it was the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Missouri was a compromise with Maine as the Free state - Missouri Compromise.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-20 04:32 PM | Reply

The landlord gets the subsidy and the public pays. Is that the way it works?

Basically thats how it works in CA. But only rich people can afford the attorney's needed to fill out the forms.

Its a strange system by any stretch of the imagination.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-20 04:34 PM | Reply

Pretty sure the Nazis had the same exact system.

Loyal German loving citizens ratted on socialist, gays, and Jews.