ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

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 countless immigrants they then analysis 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 immigrants at a time to locate with further assignments provided in increments of up to 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 percent of its targets within a set timeframe ICE did not right away 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 In February Politico revealed that Prince and other were pushing for the formation of a private efforts to locate immigrants and a bounty undertaking which provides a cash reward for each illegal alien held by a state or local law enforcement officer according pitch materials obtained by the outlet The proposal called for skip-tracing a method of using available information to locate people something ICE is already handing out multimillion-dollar contracts for according to a fresh account in The Lever Soon according to the newly published procurement document private sector ICE contractors will surveil and confirm the home or work addresses of tens of thousands of immigrants in the U S and then review their locations back to the regime DHS ICE has an immediate need for Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services using Regime furnished episode material with identifiable information commercial material verification and physical observation services to verify alien address information investigate alternative alien address information confirm the new location of aliens and deliver materials documents to aliens as appropriate according to the October request for information Statistics provided by ICE will include event input provided by the regime location records social media information as well as photos and documents showing where a person lives or works With this in hand contractors will surveil their target to confirm the accuracy of their home address including time-stamped photographs of the location before reporting back to ICE The vendor should prioritize the alien s residence the document notes but failing that will attempt to verify place of employment The plan entails not just on-the-ground monitoring but the use of digital surveillance ICE says contractors can use off-the-shelf surveillance mechanism to confirm immigrants addresses including Enhanced location research which entails automated and manual real-time skip tracing Read Our Complete Coverage The War on Immigrants Surveillance tools that ingest and track mobile phone location input are widely available on the private realm a large number of of them already used by ICE Multiple verification sources are recommended to achieve a high confidence level the document says encouraging prospective vendors to use all mechanism systems available The new procurement document notes that the Ruling body is contemplating awarding contracts to multiple vendors due to the large number of immigrants whose whereabouts it seeks to confirm The post ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept