ICE is considering “monetary bonuses” based on performance for private bounty hunters

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Saturday, Nov. 01, 2025 Saturday, Nov. 01, 2025 at 9:04:16am PDT

No different than some states incentivizing informers on people who have had abortions, undocumented immigrant hunting will be privatized. Whole new profit centers ahead as PoC are now prey in a commodity market for prisoners. No bag of cash will save anyone from the new Stasi.

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.

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