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DHS hires bounty hunters to track deported individuals abroad

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly hiring private investigators to locate and photograph the homes of individuals who have been deported from the US. This initiative follows a previous assurance that leaving the country would clear any outstanding fines. The DHS is now seeking to collect these debts by employing bounty hunters to find deportees in their home countries. AI

RANK_REASON Government agency policy change regarding enforcement and debt collection. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.1]

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DHS hires bounty hunters to track deported individuals abroad

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Government agency policy change regarding enforcement and debt collection. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=2 ai=0.1]
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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines

    📰 DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. 📰 Source: Feed:…

    LINKS web.archive.org/…/dhs-is-hiring-bounty-hu… web.archive.org
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it

    DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. https://www. wire…

    LINKS wired.com/…/dhs-is-hiring-bounty-hunters-…

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