According to a new report, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is considering hiring private bounty hunters to track down illegal aliens.

If this happens, it could dramatically boost deportation numbers.

The Intercept claims to have obtained a DHS procurement document which detailed plans to hire private contractors for “Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services.”

If you don’t know what skip-tracing entails, The Independent provided this definition:

Skip-tracing involves “gathering, analyzing, and verifying information to locate individuals who have disappeared, whether intentionally or unintentionally,” according to Thomson Reuters.

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Under the reported plans, bounty hunters would be incentivized with monetary bonuses depending on how successful they were.

Here’s more from The Intercept report:

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 “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.)

At a time when violence against ICE is escalating and immigration authorities are struggling to meet deportation goals, this could be a solid move.

What do you think?

Would you support this?

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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