The Government's Bounty Hunter Gamble: A New Low in Immigration Enforcement The Department of Homeland Security's latest move to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the United States is a brazen escalation of the Trump administration's anti immigration efforts.
By outsourcing the collection of fines and fees, the government is resorting to tactics more commonly associated with organized crime syndicates.
The program in question, dubbed Tracing and Payment Recovery Services, has a price tag of $9 million over two years.