ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

[riversedge]

Source: theintercerpt.com



Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.

Sam Biddle October 31 2025, 8:04 p.m.



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country, according to a procurement document reviewed by The Intercept. 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.

According to the document, which solicits information from interested contractors for a potentially forthcoming contract opportunity, 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 solicitation says ICE is considering “monetary bonuses” paid out based on performance.

The solicitation says ICE is “exploring an incentive based pricing structure” to encourage quick results, with “monetary bonuses” paid out based on performance. For example, ICE says contractors might get paid a bonus for identifying a person’s correct address on the first try or finding 90 percent of its targets within a set timeframe. (ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

The document closely resembles a plan reportedly circulated by a group of military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO and Trump ally Erik Prince..........................

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/ice-plans-cash-rewards-for-private-bounty-hunters-to-locate-and-track-immigrants/

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Oh crap--Erik Prince is involved!!




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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation effort in US history, vowing to ultimately deport all of the foreigners living in the country without permission. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

[Alice B.]

1. JFC.

Can the moral arc bend faster, please?

[Lonestarblue]

2. Will these vigilantes also be given orders to bring them in dead or alive?

Texas vigilantes monitoring the border have frequently wounded and even murdered people crossing the border. Considering how bad the ICE goons are, I can’t imagine the dregs they’ll find as vigilantes.

[Dave Bowman]

7. They have a long history of hurting and killing people.

[travelingthrulife]

3. Cowardly goons. Has ICE ever been to an area that has crime? Like where MS-13 guys might actually hang out?

[dalton99a]

27. +1

[doc03]

4. So now if we have a beef with a neighbor or co-worker we could turn them

into ICE and get paid. Sounds harmless.

[Auggie]

9. +1

[underpants]

10. That's what happened in Iraq

At first when it was completely lawless, neighbors could settle grudges or just take neighbors stuff by killing them. You and a group of people could basically create your own little fiefdom.

Remember, in some spots the US Army set up “safe drop spots” for bodies so they wouldn’t just stuff them down manhole covers. The sewage systems were getting clogged up.

Later on we were paying for information. There were many reports of people making money off just giving a name and location of someone as being insurgents. Out of the blue everyday people were swept up with some ending up in the Bagram air base nightmare.

[Walleye]

5. Corrupt, disgusting, infuriating, and un-American

So our tax money will be going directly to these thugs as a reward for beating up women and children. Wonderful.

[underpants]

12. How unshocked are we that Prince and Blackwater are getting into this?

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This has “footballs of cash” ala Iraq written all over it

[Walleye]

17. Filthy, dirty corruption and mendacity. I'm tired of it.

[70sEraVet]

19. I wouldn't put it past Prince to do a little sex-trafficking as a side hussle.

The opportunities for criminals are literally without limits, now that a criminal enterprise is running the country.

[Dave Bowman]

6. This is totally insane. They keep lowering the freaking bar.

[sop]

8. "Private Bounty Hunters"...the goons even ICE wouldn't hire because of their criminal records.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. They'll just turn in anyone who looks like an immigrant.

They have no other way to define their search. They don't have access to govt records or police files. They can't demand papers to prove status.
See an illegal? Turn him in and let ICE sort them out. What a potential mess.

[underpants]

13. Yep.

[surfered]

15. Yep!

[surfered]

14. I thought they were already doing this based upon their lack of professionalism.

[Turbineguy]

16. For a Few Dollars More.

[underpants]

29. ICE has a butt ton of money.

More than the FBI DEA and ATF combined.

They are going have to OVERpay to ward off the potential for blackmail and extortion that’s literally built into this. Ridiculous.

[Joinfortmill]

18. Their day of reckoning won't be pretty.

The new Nuremberg Trials are coming.

[Paladin]

24. That day won't come nearly soon enough, either.

And a Nuremberg Trials framework is already more than justified.

[ashredux]

20. My neighbor, I don't like, just got back from his vacation

He got a great tan down in the Caribbean, I’m gonna take that SOB out now and I’m turning him in. I don’t care he was born in Indiana,His dog keeps shitting in my yard.


Welcome to the new USA

[underpants]

25. That's sadly too funny.

As I posted above, happened aaaaalll the time in Iraq.

[HarryM]

21. I hope someone turns in

Malaria tRump, she came to the US under false pretenses. Therefore she is an "illegal" alien.

[crud]

22. Wow! What a great idea...not

These folks are not geniuses but they are something completely nazi like. This is not gonna go very well.

[PatSeg]

26. Plus, I'm sure there a lot of people out there

who are desperate for cash and as the economy worsens, there will probably be more.

[moniss]

23. Unleashing the private army so they get some practice

before the mid-terms and 2028.

[dalton99a]

28. Which means the bounty hunters will be given access to government and other databases - and immunity

[republianmushroom]

30. More and more Gestapo tactics.

The republican Gestapo.

[Hekate]

31. And women who might be pregnant. Thanks, Texas.

Police state? We are far down that road.

[Ping Tung]

32. Will they get paid for bringing in scalps to verify their success" ?

[Bayard]

33. Rape and robbery

Reports of men posing as ICE agents to get into people's houses will magnify by a factor of 10.

[yellow dahlia]

34. Insert head exploding emoji here.

[Jack Valentino]

35. Just remember, Trump never pays his contractors....

[Wonder Why]

36. "Wanted, dead or deported"! New signs in Post Offices?

[Hotler]

37. Fulfilling a campaign promise to his voters. Preparation for vigilante round up of Dems & Libs.

His voters are chomping at the bit to use guns on the rest of us. Arm yourselves, Protect yourself and family against MAGA door kickers.