Alternate Means of Apprehension? Federal Government May Shift to Bounty Hunters
Call them what you will; the traditional brand of bounty hunter, the new and hip skip tracer tag, the very official sounding fugitive recovery agent or the actual official title of Bail Recovery Agent (only in certain states, that is).
Whatever moniker you choose, it looks like the Dept. of Homeland Security is making the shift to the private sector to rid the United States of the millions upon millions of illegal aliens allowed in under the Biden regime.
But first, is should be made clear what exactly a bounty hunter is and what a bounty hunter isn’t.
According to the good folks over at the Cornell Law School (highlights mine);
In the legal sense, a bounty hunter is someone who tracks down criminal defendants who have skipped bail, and turns them in. In the U.S., bounty hunters are mostly hired by a bail-bond company (bail bondsman) to track down a criminal defendant who has failed to appear in court in breach of the bail-bond agreement.
Georgia Bail Recovery Agent Alex Haynes.
Historically, courts have given bounty hunters numerous powers for bringing fugitives to justice. These powers range from going after a fugitive in another state, arresting a fugitive at any time and, to enter a fugitive’s house to capture him or her without a warrant. At the same time, they don’t have immunities given to state agents like police officers in the exercise of their powers because bounty hunters are more like independent contractors and are not agents of the state.
As much as I respect DHS and ICE agents, I’m more of a fan of the private sector solving the really large projects the federal government tries to wrap their arms around (suffice it to say that the military is the only corner of the government that even comes close to getting the job done within the bounds of reasonable expectations).
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly considering hiring private contractors to locate and track illegal aliens across the country.
According to a leaked DHS procurement document obtained by The Intercept, ICE plans to outsource “Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services” to private firms, providing them with government data on batches of 10,000 immigrants at a time, with potential escalations up to 1,000,000 cases.
The proposal includes an “incentive-based pricing structure” with “monetary bonuses” for high performance, such as pinpointing a target’s address on the first try or successfully locating 90% of assigned individuals within deadlines.
Besides, DHS Sec. Kristi Noem may have no other choice but to rely on hired guns.
Fully compliant with the law.
As MacDonald also reported;
There has been an escalation in attacks on ICE personnel, with DHS reporting an 8,000% spike in death threats and over a 1,000% increase in assaults compared to previous years.
But wait, there’s more.
As it turns out, even though the federal government is pumping millions of dollars to pump-up ICE;
“… over a third of recruits failing basic physical fitness tests, including 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and a 1.5-mile run in under 14 minutes.”
That’s stunning to me. I’m on the down-hill slide to 70 and my old-ass can pass that unbelievably easy fitness test.
In the meantime, FugitiveRecovery.com has an impressive website noting the various state-by-state requirements to be classified as legally recovering those who’ve illegally skipped their bail.
Anyone under the misconception that just anyone can become a bounty hunter on a whim is sadly mistaken.
Just the paperwork alone is enough for me to cross bounty hunter off my bucket list.
