Leak shows ICE 'bounty hunters' get kickbacks for handling 'alien children': report

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https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2676617018/

Leak shows ICE 'bounty hunters' get kickbacks for handling 'alien children': report

Alexander Willis
March 25, 2026 8:53AM ET

The Trump administration has set aside tens of millions of dollars for police officers who help carry out its mass deportation policy, including incentive payments for processing “unaccompanied alien children,” newly leaked documents obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed Wednesday.

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Funding for the program is extensive, according to the leaked files, including $89 million alone for the Florida Highway Patrol, which “already has 1,803 ‘task force officers’ credentialed under the program,” the journalist wrote.

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“Absent from the list of bounty payments to states and localities are new payments to California, New Mexico, Illinois, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as other ‘blue’ states,” Klippenstein wrote. “The reason? The money is being doled out to cooperative pro-Trump states and departments, affirming that these are political payoffs and hardly a pure national program.”

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[Irish_Dem]

1. We can only imagine what they are doing with unaccompanied children.

We know what is happening.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. It's unconsciable

[Ocelot II]

2. Satan has bagged himself a whole big batch of souls this year.

[barbtries]

4. all of this misery and corruption

paid for by our tax dollars.

it is obscene.

[Exp]

5. If an idea is not both cruel AND corrupt, the Steph Miller Admin will not consider it. nt

[erronis]

6. Lots of otherwise unemployable violence-loving idiots are enjoying this manna for now.

When it is cut by this regime or by a rational legal system, they'll be pretty upset and all accessorized.

[kimbutgar]

7. i wouldn't be surprised if these children are being sex trafficked

or abused in these detention (concentration camps ). And when it comes out I hope there are major consequences on these ice gestapo and administration.

[popsdenver]

8. Trump and Republicans

kidnapped hundreds? thousands? of immigrant children DURING HIS FIRST TERM, caged them in large fenced pens, with only a flimsy space blanket. Even U.S. Senators and House members who tried to investigate them were turned away by ICE and Border Patrol guarding them, dressed in full battle gear and heavily armed............

WHERE DID THEY ALL GO??????????????? NO PAPERWORK OR RECORDS WERE KEPT..........

And we are right back there again, with nothing having been done the first time...........

Trump and Republicans were inching forward, as they have done with countless other things, and now they are at a full gallop....

We have watched over 200 Dem House and Senate members, (with the exception of a select few), sit back and just watch......