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The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets.
The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets.
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program.
“PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.
Nothing modern day bounty hunting. Paying to deport human beings. This is what 47 is doing.
The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets.
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program.
“PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.
Nothing modern day bounty hunting. Paying to deport human beings. This is what 47 is doing.
