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Sunday, November 02, 2025

ICE is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country. 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. 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 document closely resembles a plan reportedly circulated by a group of military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO and Dummkopf Trump ally Erik Prince whose mercenary companies have been implicated in war crimes. In February, Prince and other were pushing for the formation of a private efforts to locate immigrants and a "bounty program which provides a cash reward for each illegal alien held by a state or local law enforcement officer."

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The sinister plan entails not just on-the-ground monitoring but the use of digital surveillance. ICE says contractors can use off-the-shelf surveillance technology to confirm immigrants' addresses, including "Enhanced location research, which entails automated and manual real-time skip tracing." An Israeli firm will be providing ICE with hi-tech equipment that can hack Smartphones. All of this skip tracing and investigations will not require warrants. The US and the Philippines are the only two countries on the planet with legalized bounty hunting, although in the US bounty hunting is banned or heavily restricted in Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Texas. Link: ICE Solicitation for Bounty Hunters.

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Anyone who "looks Latino," speaks Spanish in public?
Fair game.
That's why Gloria Estefan carries a passport card in her wallet (
www.thetimes.com).
Lived here for 66 of her 68 years and it's ...
"Ihre Papiere bitte!"

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