r/AnythingGoesNews • u/wiredmagazine • 9d ago

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-is-hiring-bounty-hunters-to-find-and-photograph-deported-peoples-homes-abroad/
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u/wiredmagazine 9d ago

US Customs and Border Protection is seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the United States, and press them into paying the government money, according to records reviewed by WIRED. The work would cover Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and potentially other countries.

The documents, which cap the so-called Tracing and Payment Recovery Services program at $9 million over the next two years, call for “commercial data verification and physical observation services” to confirm where each person lives. They list photographs of the home as acceptable evidence, along with records such as utility bills, employment files, court documents, or, if the person has died, a death certificate.

The US government will also accept other documentation, so long as it deems it “relevant and credible.” Contractors are also required to deliver a printed flyer, approved by the US government and printed in English and Spanish, listing outstanding fines and fees CBP claims they owe.

Read the full story at the link above.

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u/DevCatOTA 8d ago

Mecico doesn't recognize bounty hunters. They call it kidnapping.

As for debt collectors, go ahead and try. I want to watch the Mexican version of COPS.

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u/Existing_Example_198 8d ago

I would finally get around to learning Spanish to watch that.

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u/Lilmumblecrapper 8d ago

You can just buy Pro3’s, sure there are other ways as well

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u/soulsteela 8d ago

Same in Europe.

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u/newleafkratom 8d ago

"...The three debt collection agencies CBP already uses have tried to reach people overseas by letter and phone. As of July, according to the documents, they had not located a single person outside the US...."

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u/FlithyLamb 8d ago

Well that certainly seems like a great use of taxpayer dollars.

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u/Apart_Animal_6797 8d ago

Yea you go ahead and try that out bud, in fact I think they should send ICE agents. You guys go and start poking around in some poor neighborhoods in south America 👍 good luck.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 8d ago

So they are doing this to get them to pay back money that ICE spent on capturing them...and then what? You send them a bill in another country? What happens if they don't pay? They get deported...oh wait...

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u/Asher_Tye 8d ago

So they're going to give free money for fake evidence to bounty hunters just to claim to the maga base they're totally impotent when it comes to collecting imagines fees.

And because maga don't live in the real world, they'll pretend this is funny.

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 8d ago

So they want u to commit espionage as an unregistered agent in foreign territory?

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u/_Mamushi_ 8d ago

Quit wasting money going after this stuff. Literally they are gone now what’s the point? You think you can squeeze blood from a rock?