So on Nov. 12, we learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was going to hire bounty hunters to track down immigrants and feed them to ICE. But what if government officials made that much, much worse? Welcome to this week.
Fam, is it a good sign of a healthy democracy if the government starts paying people to snitch on their neighbors?
404 Media is reporting that ICE is recruiting ex-military and ex-law enforcement officers to—you guessed it—track down immigrants and feed them to ICE. For their troubles, they get $300 for every person whose address they—allegedly, come on!—verify and then turn over to the gaping, vicious maw of ICE.
Sure, this is theoretically limited to ex-military and ex-cops, but those folks aren’t magically still in the military or law enforcement. They’re pr

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