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Klarkashton

(4,597 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 03:29 PM Jun 2025

Is ICE paying bounty hunters? There are a hell

Of a lot of masked goons in plain clothes out here
Driving SUVs without license plates picking up people off the street to go for knows where.
Is there a record someplace that would show contracts and payments to these bastards?

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Irish_Dem

(78,752 posts)
1. Of course they are. There is too much enthusiasm and effort for there not to be a bounty per head kidnapped.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 03:33 PM
Jun 2025

Probably more if you kill people once in custody.

Blue Dotty

(163 posts)
2. Private Goon Squads
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 04:12 PM
Jun 2025

Let’s see: 3 Percenters, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Erik Prince (Blackwater),and some of the 1500 pardoned Jan 6th insurrectionists are a few possibilities. Not to mention that trump is probably profiting by charging any MAGA Rambo/Rittenhouse types that want to go on human hunting expeditions in the name of MAGA patriotism.

rubbersole

(10,948 posts)
3. They'd probably pay ICE for the privilege.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 05:50 PM
Jun 2025

When tsf starts defying all court orders and the repub house won't impeach him we're done. It'll be every man for himself. Gonna get ugly.

Iamscrewed

(486 posts)
4. Humanity?
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:12 PM
Jun 2025

My grandparents generation gave their all to fight against this crap. My other ancestors battled brother against brother in the civil war and earlier against king George, before that some of them fought the white man, the Spaniards and between themselves. We will never learn.

moniss

(8,550 posts)
5. I made note of this yesterday that our Dems in Congress
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:28 PM
Jun 2025

need to nail down the details about things like this and using "contractors" and hopefully they understand the urgency.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220416161

Girard442

(6,804 posts)
6. Opens up a whole ton of (il)legal issues.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:30 PM
Jun 2025

If these guys turn out to be pure free-lancers, could easily turn into an open-and-shut case of self-defense.

sop

(17,147 posts)
8. The thugs are no longer standing back and standing by, they've been promised pardons and given a license to kill.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:31 PM
Jun 2025
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