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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spend-180-million-on-bounty-hunters-to-stalk-immigrants/Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
The documents provide more details about ICEs plan to enlist the private sector to find deportation targets. In October The Intercept reported on ICEs intention to use bounty hunters or skip tracersan industry that often works on insurance fraud or tries to find people who skipped bail. The new documents now put a clear dollar amount on the scheme to essentially use private investigators to find the locations of undocumented immigrants.
I am sure PIs, bounty hunters, process servers, and anyone with access to commercial databases can apply and will, Igor Ostrovskiy, an experienced private investigator with Ostro Intelligence, and who expressed concerns with ICEs plans, told 404 Media. Money is money and people will jump at the opportunity to embed their business as a government contractor.
The documents are part of a package published by ICE on Monday. They say ICE is seeking assistance with a docket size of 1.5 million, in which the agency will give vendors a batch of 50,000 last known addresses of aliens residing in the U.S. The bounty hunters are then to verify the people live at those addresses, or find their current location, and provide that information to ICEs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). ICE says bounty hunters are to start with online research such as Google or commercial data, before moving onto physical surveillance.
The documents provide more details about ICEs plan to enlist the private sector to find deportation targets. In October The Intercept reported on ICEs intention to use bounty hunters or skip tracersan industry that often works on insurance fraud or tries to find people who skipped bail. The new documents now put a clear dollar amount on the scheme to essentially use private investigators to find the locations of undocumented immigrants.
I am sure PIs, bounty hunters, process servers, and anyone with access to commercial databases can apply and will, Igor Ostrovskiy, an experienced private investigator with Ostro Intelligence, and who expressed concerns with ICEs plans, told 404 Media. Money is money and people will jump at the opportunity to embed their business as a government contractor.
The documents are part of a package published by ICE on Monday. They say ICE is seeking assistance with a docket size of 1.5 million, in which the agency will give vendors a batch of 50,000 last known addresses of aliens residing in the U.S. The bounty hunters are then to verify the people live at those addresses, or find their current location, and provide that information to ICEs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). ICE says bounty hunters are to start with online research such as Google or commercial data, before moving onto physical surveillance.
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ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants (Original Post)
In It to Win It
13 hrs ago
OP
Sounds like anyone with an upcoming immigration hearing is about to get a visit.
flvegan
12 hrs ago
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Srkdqltr
(9,096 posts)1. They too lazy to do it themselves?
leftstreet
(38,208 posts)2. Private contractors are winning!
flvegan
(65,476 posts)3. Sounds like anyone with an upcoming immigration hearing is about to get a visit.
Why go to the courthouse where the pesky cameras, public (and damn know it all lawyers and judges) and other obstacles exist. Verify the address from the case docket, go kick in a door. That's the (new) American way!
I though we were "overrun" with lawbreaking unlawful immigrants here? Taking over our cities? Illegal (yet tasty) taco trucks on every corner? Yet they need a Lexis Nexis login to find folks to go terrorize. How interesting.
JCMach1
(29,046 posts)6. Lesson learned, disappear people 1 at a time out of sight
flvegan
(65,476 posts)7. And think of the collateral reward potential!
Kick in the door for the one, find the additional many at the same address. Disappear them all, hit those quotas and get that bonus $$$, baby!
IcyPeas
(24,603 posts)4. This is the United States of America under Donald J. Trump
Half the country are oblivious.
Norbert
(7,452 posts)5. "Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy." Josey Wales