Cashing in on ICE: DHS paying local police millions for immigration enforcement
Mullin, as DHS Secretary, is charting a different trajectory by scaling back visible ICE involvement and seeking to use local police more for enforcement.
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Mullin, as DHS Secretary, is charting a different trajectory by scaling back visible ICE involvement and seeking to use local police more for enforcement.
DHS is reportedly increasing payments to local police for immigration enforcement and awarding large contracts to private companies for 'skip-tracing' services, shifting visible ICE operations. Critics, including an Illinois Representative, describe this as a 'bounty system' with profit motives and political ties to the former Trump administration.
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