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Pedro Camacho

DHS Secretary Claims Cartels Are Targeting Federal Immigration Agents With $10K Bounties: 'They Want to Take Them Down'

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem (Credit: Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that cartels, gangs, and terrorist organizations have placed bounties on U.S. federal immigration agents, offering up to $10,000 to kill them and $2,000 to kidnap them.

"We have specific agents who have had bounties put out on their heads," Noem said during an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend. "It's been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them. They've released their pictures, they've sent them between their networks. It's an extremely dangerous and unprecedented situation."

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