10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
The War on Immigrants
The Intercept has been reporting from the front lines and the borderlines — exposing the lies and the inhumanity of U.S. immigration enforcement agencies.
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
The Intercept Briefing
Deportation, Inc.
The true cost of fulfilling Trump’s mass deportation agenda and who’s profiting.
ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System
The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.
Trump Administration Diverted $2 Billion in Pentagon Funds to Target Immigrants, Lawmakers Say
The Trump administration is funding its anti-immigrant campaign with money set aside for defense, Democratic lawmakers wrote.
U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown
ICE’s operation against Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign.
ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
Voices
“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
Everyday Americans in Appalachia and the Southeast show that resisting ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity”
The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.
Lawmaker Challenges ICE Plan to Hire Bounty Hunters
ICE is considering hiring private investigators to track down immigrants inside the United States. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has questions.