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Pedro Camacho

New ICE Plan Would Incentivize Private Bounty Hunters to Locate Immigrants for 'Monetary Bonuses': Report

An ICE officer's badge is seen as federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on June 10, 2025 in New York City. (Credit: Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

A newly published ICE procurement document shows the agency is soliciting information from private contractors to locate immigrants across the United States and is exploring "monetary bonuses" tied to performance, The Intercept reported.

The solicitation would provide contractors with batches of case data—starting at 10,000 names at a time and potentially scaling "up to 1,000,000"—and reward rapid or accurate results, the document says.

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