ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
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ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
Sam Biddle
December 19 2025, 2:13 p.m.
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An officer wears the logo of the GEO Group private prison company outside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center detention facility in Adelanto, California, on July 11, 2025.
An officer wears the logo of the private prison company GEO Group outside the Adelanto ICE detention facility in California on July 11, 2025. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has hired a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group to aid in hunting down immigrants at their homes and places of work, according to records reviewed by The Intercept.
ICE has secured a deal with surveillance firm BI Incorporated as part of a new program, first reported in October by The Intercept, to use private bounty hunters to determine the locations of immigrants in exchange for monetary bonuses.
BI, which was acquired by the GEO Group in 2011, is one of several firms hired by ICE to provide “skip tracing” services, in which its teams of corporate investigators will use surveillance to track immigrants across the country to their homes and places of work so federal agents can easily swoop in and make arrests.
Records show ICE has already paid BI $1.6 million, with the potential for the contract to grow to as much as $121 million by the time it concludes in 2027.
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/19/ice-bounty-hunters-location-surveillance-geo-group/
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Is that how this works?
If so? This is some seriously fucked up shit, and Democrats need to raise holy hell on this one. This absolute fascist shit can NOT be fucking allowed.
