DHS chief Kristi Noem claims cartels have put $10,000 bounties on heads of specific ICE agents
Source: The Independent
Sunday 05 October 2025 21:17 BST
Individual immigration law enforcement officers and agents in Chicago are being targeted by gangs and cartel members with bounties of up to $10,000 on their heads, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Sunday.
Protesters in the Windy City have been clashing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents as they conduct sweeping immigration raids at the direction of President Donald Trump, and against the wishes of Chicagos mayor and Illinoiss governor.
Noem has condemned protesters and claimed that DHS intelligence indicates many are part of organized crime groups seeking to kidnap or kill federal immigration law enforcement agents.
We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that have been put out on their head, Noem told Fox & Friends. Its been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them, theyve released their pictures, theyve sent them between their networks, and its an extremely dangerous situation. Noem claimed gangs, cartel members, and known terrorist organizations are the ones behind the bounties but did not identify specific groups.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-immigration-chicago-cartels-b2839729.html

IcyPeas
(24,360 posts)Liar
ICE are the ones kidnapping people
ICE are the ones collecting bounties.
AZJonnie
(1,756 posts)It's *always* projection with these assholes
Next she'll be telling us the people who want to attack ICE also like to kill dogs
popsdenver
(594 posts)the drug cartels would have offered a bounty of a million bucks......not a paltry 10K............
Just another Propaganda story, to feed into their phony justification to declare Martial Law...............
AZJonnie
(1,756 posts)
Buddyzbuddy
(1,637 posts)The timing for these bounties on specific ICE agents sure is convenient. Might the source be Chapo's son who was allowed to come and stay in the USA with the Administration's blessing. Once again, convenient.
travelingthrulife
(3,418 posts)this country under cover of night. How much did they have to pay Donnie?
Buddyzbuddy
(1,637 posts)Otherwise, in my opinion, if it was "just" a bribe, I think they would have taken the money and either arrested him or thrown him out. I suspect it's for far more nefarious reasons. Maybe justifying attacks on cartels within Mexico based on sworn testimony from a cartel member?
These are just my thoughts based upon this Administration's past pattern of behavior.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,316 posts)JoseBalow
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niyad
(127,717 posts)identify themselves? How does that work? Is puppy killer saying dhs files have been hacked?
Walleye
(42,708 posts)They are so used to their people making up vague conspiracy theories. They never pin anything down specifically. Show us some of these people, if its true, it should be easy to find them and deal with them.
Javaman
(64,591 posts)
marble falls
(68,814 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,482 posts)To be a certain puppy headed to an abandoned rock quarry
oasis
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durablend
(8,547 posts)Pictures of the Democratic party members were circulated with targets over then
mountain grammy
(28,276 posts)Shes full of shit?
oldinmtdem92
(59 posts)any one with half a brain ,can see the shit is about to get real, I'm old with nothing much to lose, and these guys are really pissing me off.
DemMedic
(513 posts)GusBob
(8,007 posts)And I was anticipating such actions on part of the Cartels
They dont mess around. 3 people I knew were ambushed in a targeted cartel assassination, 2 died, over a grievance The victims uncle owed the Cartel money and the cartel said pay up or we start killing your family
And dont cool story bro me. Its ugly and true. March 28th of last year
Perhaps the problem here is when the Admin tells so many lies, one cannot recognize a truth
nuxvomica
(13,671 posts)I would expect there to be bounties on some personnel, the ones who are actually working against the bad guys, but she's saying the threats apply to all personnel, including the masked thugs that go around detaining people with no criminal record. The latter are no threat to the bad guys so it's unlikely they would have bounties on their heads.
travelingthrulife
(3,418 posts)They are going after regular people, all day, all night.
I don't deny your story, but they are not attacking cartels. Puppy Killer just wants you to believe they are.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,316 posts)In any case, kidnapping is much riskier, re evidence trail, for a gang than murder.
maxsolomon
(37,486 posts)It's not impossible that there are Cartel bounties for ICE Agents, sure. I'm skeptical simply because Noem said it and she's a pathological liar.
Where did your acquaintances get ambushed? In Mexico?
Botany
(75,456 posts)That was so phony and staged it was ridiculous. Having a film crew with a narrator go along with her
as she made a piss stop at a local police station? Please. She and her people knew what the answer
was going to be before she went to the door. Why didnt she pee in the ICE building she was in or in
one of the many fast food restaurants that were near by? Or why didnt one of her people call up the
police station 1st?
And the Academy Award also goes for the writing for the film, I Gotta Pee.
Governor Pritzker is at fault because he is so uncooperative.
We were out on an operation to round up gang and cartel members.
Pure Kabuki theater. Just like Nomes lie about the 10 K being paid by cartels to hurt ICE agents.
Link to tweet
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,316 posts)Botany
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Johnson. Who doesnt take a long a film crew, a narrator, somebody pretending to be a reporter,
and @ least half a dozen people in an entourage to take a pee and or a dump? I would not be surprised
if the person who told her she couldnt come into the building was paid off too. Noem is a cabinet
member and one phone call from one of her people to the chief of police @ that building and she
would have gotten right in no problems although a back or side door might have been used. And
how does she know that the cartels are paying 10 K to people who assault ICE agents? What did
they have a cartel zoom meeting about ICE agents in Chicago?
BTW I guess cartels are the new ANTIFA or left wing domestic terrorists.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,316 posts)azureblue
(2,573 posts)she always lies. She is trying to make it illegal to doxx ICE thugs.
Clouds Passing
(6,004 posts)karynnj
(60,580 posts)There would have been news reports, so the answer is ZERO. Given the large number of peaceful protestors who outnumber ICE if they were really terrorists, is that likely?
Meanwhile they are attacking people in their apartments. The stories of sweeping up everyone, including children, who they zip tied, show who the aggressors are.
Trump actually said the quiet part before the military. He wants them to use our cities as training grounds. I know family from Chicago and this is NOT the America we grew up in.
travelingthrulife
(3,418 posts)These ICE cowards seem to never go into the more gnarly areas of town.
travelingthrulife
(3,418 posts)You put a bounty on the heads of every single US citizen.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,316 posts)-misanthroptimist
(1,457 posts)Those words should always be regarded with skepticism -or outright rejection if one wants to save time.
She lies, often and easily.
Jilly_in_VA
(13,193 posts)Haha. Hahaha. Repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseam, &c, &m, or however long you want to go on. ICE Barbie is lying again.
EarthFirst
(3,849 posts)
and heavily target tourist and residential neighborhoods
Safer that way?
/sarcasm
Midnight Writer
(24,836 posts)in this country willing to die themselves in order to kill Americans?
Of course, if this was true, we would have seen millions of dead Americans.
Which we did not.
republianmushroom
(21,542 posts)One does reap what one sows.
Linda ladeewolf
(1,002 posts)I wonder if they will make her wish come true? Will they put her at the top of the list?
I know they (the cartels) probably dont care about the immigrants any more than gnome does but they might enjoy it anyway.
Mysterian
(5,977 posts)She will be held accountable when the rule of law is re-established in this country.
kacekwl
(8,641 posts)Make the bounty one Million dollars ?