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So what we really have are ICE Bounty Hunters...and the "crime"?...looking different from the average KKK member. CincyDem Nov 22 #1
Worse than bounty hunters Disaffected Nov 22 #3
I agree worse than bounty hunters... slightlv Nov 22 #24
Not unlike the Brown Shirts or SS in Nazi Germany. Disaffected Nov 23 #28
Want to bet those ICE agents are... ProudMNDemocrat Nov 23 #38
Git while the gittin's good is the rule of the day. CrispyQ Nov 22 #2
It dissgusts me that our money is funding this anti-American shit. pandr32 Nov 22 #4
Democrats need to clawback all that illegal incentive money. sop Nov 22 #5
O. M. G. calimary Nov 22 #6
THIS!!! RockCreek Nov 22 #8
All this. sheshe2 Nov 22 #10
Abolish ICE, dismantle DHS nt mr715 Nov 22 #23
..."illegal to pay salaried law enforcement officers a direct cash bonus"-- What if that gets skated around Aimee in OKC Nov 23 #31
They've likely worded it as a bonus for exceeding certain job performance goals. sop Nov 23 #32
+1 dalton99a Nov 23 #33
I'll bet that those "bonuses for abuses" are tax free. erronis Nov 22 #7
Yes! I've seen the ads on YouTube for ICE bonuses Lulu KC Nov 22 #9
I just saw my first ad for hiring ICE while watching some program on TV. llmart Nov 22 #12
$2,000 bonuses are paid for each and every arrest - regardless of whether or not that person turns out to be undocumente patphil Nov 22 #11
Only if the jail TommyT139 Nov 23 #29
Depravity is quite profitable these days. Borogove Nov 22 #13
The $2000 per arrest expains their despatation to arrest anyone with dark hair BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 22 #14
Woah. That's certainly an "incentive" to grab people! Day-am! electric_blue68 Nov 22 #15
and we foot the bill barbtries Nov 22 #16
Jeezus, my anger knows no bounds.Trump regime is fascist through and through. Joinfortmill Nov 22 #17
$2000 per head for picking up just ANYBODY?? DFW Nov 22 #18
if true, some Democrats need to holler this one from the rooftops RussBLib Nov 22 #26
I've always felt that they were paying a bounty for each person they captured ... aggiesal Nov 22 #19
And they go after the easiest targets because they are cowards. travelingthrulife Nov 23 #34
They charge them to get released even if cpamomfromtexas Nov 22 #20
Wow! SupportSanity Nov 23 #39
The incentive is horrifying. $2000 can be enough to turn around bad times. paulkienitz Nov 22 #21
Follow the money RecoveringJournalist Nov 22 #22
We won't be able to have nice things... let alone a functioning country... slightlv Nov 22 #25
Now THAT is newsworthy. summer_in_TX Nov 23 #27
$2,000 per arrest, regardless of immigration status? Sickening! SunSeeker Nov 23 #30
Two relevant songs worth hearing MadameButterfly Nov 23 #35
Kind of reminds me of Viet Nam vets always saying KS Toronado Nov 23 #36
Kudos to your brother for speaking up. The money being thrown at ICE agents is disgusting. Martin68 Nov 23 #37
This is great information. If you understand the incentive, you understand the brutality and the randomness of it. SupportSanity Nov 23 #40
Waste and abuse. All the money wasted on Ice could go towards helping Americans get Ziggysmom Nov 23 #41

CincyDem

(7,291 posts)
1. So what we really have are ICE Bounty Hunters...and the "crime"?...looking different from the average KKK member.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 02:57 PM
Nov 22

Disaffected

(6,050 posts)
3. Worse than bounty hunters
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:02 PM
Nov 22

because there is no actual bounty on some of the victims.

slightlv

(7,165 posts)
24. I agree worse than bounty hunters...
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 11:16 PM
Nov 22

these guys are rump's mercenaries... a private army all his own, turned against anyone and everyone rump hates... and that includes the whole world full of people because rump can't stand people. They just distract from his glory, you see...

Disaffected

(6,050 posts)
28. Not unlike the Brown Shirts or SS in Nazi Germany.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 01:12 AM
Nov 23

Except AFAIK, even they weren't paid bounties.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,447 posts)
38. Want to bet those ICE agents are...
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:39 AM
Nov 23

Former Proud Boys and Oath Keepers cashing in on that money? Many of the same people that were pardoned along with Stuart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who must be salivating at the thought of cashing in?

CrispyQ

(40,528 posts)
2. Git while the gittin's good is the rule of the day.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 02:57 PM
Nov 22

Our treasury is Trump's piggy bank. We have $20-21 trillion coming in, according to Trump but we have to cut SNAP & Meals on Wheels?

pandr32

(13,679 posts)
4. It dissgusts me that our money is funding this anti-American shit.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:09 PM
Nov 22

sop

(17,080 posts)
5. Democrats need to clawback all that illegal incentive money.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:18 PM
Nov 22

It's illegal to pay salaried law enforcement officers a direct cash bonus for individual arrests. A departmental employment agreement (a contract), such as promising monetary incentives for individual arrests by law enforcement officers, would also be "against public policy," harmful to the community or society as a whole. Such fiinancial incentives for individual arrests create significant conflicts of interest, encouraging officers to make unnecessary, questionable, or unconstitutional arrests simply to increase their pay.

calimary

(88,660 posts)
6. O. M. G.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:24 PM
Nov 22

RockCreek

(1,211 posts)
8. THIS!!!
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:46 PM
Nov 22

sheshe2

(95,163 posts)
10. All this.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:03 PM
Nov 22

You are exactly right.

Such fiinancial incentives for individual arrests create significant conflicts of interest, encouraging officers to make unnecessary, questionable, or unconstitutional arrests simply to increase their pay.


And the more brutal the arrest, all the better. Like the woman that was dragged out of a car by her legs by two 'agents' and dropped on the pavement.

Figueroa was released from ICE custody at around 4 pm that day and returned home shaken. Her mother collected her from an ambulance in a parking lot in Lombard and rushed her to a nearby hospital, as she was injured, in shock and bleeding from her recent surgery.


https://www.msn.com/en-in/politics/government/shock-and-terrified-ice-agents-drag-chicago-woman-out-of-car-pin-her-after-vehicles-collide-watch-video/ar-AA1PMnyO

mr715

(2,476 posts)
23. Abolish ICE, dismantle DHS nt
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:57 PM
Nov 22

Aimee in OKC

(170 posts)
31. ..."illegal to pay salaried law enforcement officers a direct cash bonus"-- What if that gets skated around
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:03 AM
Nov 23

for a lot of them because they're not salaried ICE officials, but considered as employees/ subcontractors of their contractor? So maybe not being styled as a 'cash bonus' but rather like working on commission? Just trying to figure out the dodge.

sop

(17,080 posts)
32. They've likely worded it as a bonus for exceeding certain job performance goals.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:10 AM
Nov 23

dalton99a

(91,461 posts)
33. +1
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:12 AM
Nov 23

erronis

(22,234 posts)
7. I'll bet that those "bonuses for abuses" are tax free.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:31 PM
Nov 22

No records filed with trump's "treasury". Hard cash or otherwise untraceable.

Lulu KC

(8,362 posts)
9. Yes! I've seen the ads on YouTube for ICE bonuses
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 03:49 PM
Nov 22

Couldn't be creepier.

llmart

(17,200 posts)
12. I just saw my first ad for hiring ICE while watching some program on TV.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:27 PM
Nov 22

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The ad said $50,000 bonus to sign up.

patphil

(8,570 posts)
11. $2,000 bonuses are paid for each and every arrest - regardless of whether or not that person turns out to be undocumente
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:24 PM
Nov 22

That's why they are willing to take US citizens, green card holders, and people with valid work visa's.
When this is all said and done, one of the things that should happen to those ICE-holes is to seize all the money that got for their bounties, plus a two dollar fine for each dollar they got.
Of course they should also receive jail time, appropriate for their for their actions.

TommyT139

(2,113 posts)
29. Only if the jail
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 01:48 AM
Nov 23

...replicates the conditions of the ICE holes.

Otherwise it's a waste of money.

This entire category of thugs needs to be gotten rid of with no delay, no trial, no lawyers -- because that the "justice" they agreed to.

Borogove

(396 posts)
13. Depravity is quite profitable these days.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:42 PM
Nov 22

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,366 posts)
14. The $2000 per arrest expains their despatation to arrest anyone with dark hair
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:45 PM
Nov 22

electric_blue68

(25,236 posts)
15. Woah. That's certainly an "incentive" to grab people! Day-am!
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 04:46 PM
Nov 22

barbtries

(31,026 posts)
16. and we foot the bill
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 05:01 PM
Nov 22

for this anti-American fascist bullshit. WE pay them money to torture people and destroy lives.

Joinfortmill

(19,714 posts)
17. Jeezus, my anger knows no bounds.Trump regime is fascist through and through.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 05:42 PM
Nov 22

DFW

(59,544 posts)
18. $2000 per head for picking up just ANYBODY??
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 06:20 PM
Nov 22

If there were an uncorrupt Justice Department, that sounds like a prosecution under the RICO act.

RussBLib

(10,382 posts)
26. if true, some Democrats need to holler this one from the rooftops
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 11:51 PM
Nov 22

...a bounty for any arrest, regardless of warranted or not? the media seems unable to do their frikkin' jobs these days. Gotta force them to.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

aggiesal

(10,477 posts)
19. I've always felt that they were paying a bounty for each person they captured ...
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 06:33 PM
Nov 22

That's why ICEstapo fight for every capture they get.
It's almost like Big Game Human hunting.

travelingthrulife

(4,049 posts)
34. And they go after the easiest targets because they are cowards.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:23 AM
Nov 23

Ministers, kids, women, people just driving down the street or doing their job.

I have never once seen video of ICE in an actual crime zone.

cpamomfromtexas

(1,461 posts)
20. They charge them to get released even if
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:15 PM
Nov 22

They are AMERICANS. I have a friend I have bailed out 4 times! Where is that money going?

SupportSanity

(1,560 posts)
39. Wow!
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:59 AM
Nov 23

Amazing.

paulkienitz

(1,486 posts)
21. The incentive is horrifying. $2000 can be enough to turn around bad times.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:44 PM
Nov 22
22. Follow the money
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:57 PM
Nov 22

It always has and always will come down to one simple principle - the Benjamins.

Follow... the... money.

slightlv

(7,165 posts)
25. We won't be able to have nice things... let alone a functioning country...
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 11:19 PM
Nov 22

until we find a way to actually deal with greed. We have to make it less desirable, more punishment whenever caught. Love of money is the root of all evil, and that's one truism I fully believe.

summer_in_TX

(3,958 posts)
27. Now THAT is newsworthy.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:35 AM
Nov 23

Any investigative reporters here? Among your circle of friends?
Needs corroboration to have legs.

SunSeeker

(57,364 posts)
30. $2,000 per arrest, regardless of immigration status? Sickening!
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 07:58 AM
Nov 23

MadameButterfly

(3,684 posts)
35. Two relevant songs worth hearing
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:44 AM
Nov 23




One song by a new star, Jesse Wells. Another written by Woodie Guthrie in 1948 that hauntingly rings true today, which John McCutcheon brings to life with his signature storytelling.

KS Toronado

(22,437 posts)
36. Kind of reminds me of Viet Nam vets always saying
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:29 AM
Nov 23

"Kill them all, let God sort them out"

Martin68

(26,769 posts)
37. Kudos to your brother for speaking up. The money being thrown at ICE agents is disgusting.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 11:33 AM
Nov 23

SupportSanity

(1,560 posts)
40. This is great information. If you understand the incentive, you understand the brutality and the randomness of it.
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:01 PM
Nov 23

Doesn't make it any better.

Yes, follow the benjamins. And don't forget the rubles.

Ziggysmom

(3,983 posts)
41. Waste and abuse. All the money wasted on Ice could go towards helping Americans get
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 01:30 PM
Nov 23

health care.

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