ICE is planning to offer cash rewards to bounty hunters who locate immigrants across the country based on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report 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 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate, with further assignments provided in “increments of 10,000 up to 1,000,000.”

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 90 percent of its targets within a set timeframe.

Gee, wasn't there something or other in East Germany, the “Stasi” I think, that used extensive surveillance, informants, and other repressive methods against the population.

And here in the United States there was an organization that offered bounty-like rewards. Didn't they go by some letters, the KKK, or something?

Oh, and there was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

BTW, what's the disincentive to apprehending innocent people? I mean, hell, just round 'em up and roll the dice... maybe you get a bonus, maybe you don't, but sort that shit out later.

Ain't ya' so proud, cultists?

theintercept.com - Ice plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants