DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Dell CameronMaddy VarnerSecurityAug 5, 2026 1:24 PMDHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes AbroadHomeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. The work would cover Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and potentially other countries.The documents, which cap the so-called Tracing and Payment Recovery Services program at $9 million over the next two years, call for “commercial data verification and physical observation services” to confirm where each person lives. Those fines run against people who are still in the country, at $998 a day for up to five years.
- ▪Dell CameronMaddy VarnerSecurityAug 5, 2026 1:24 PMDHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes AbroadHomeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe.
- ▪The work would cover Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala, and potentially other countries.The documents, which cap the so-called Tracing and Payment Recovery Services program at $9 million over the next two years, call for “commercial data veri
- ▪Those fines run against people who are still in the country, at $998 a day for up to five years.
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Dell CameronMaddy VarnerSecurityAug 5, 2026 1:24 PMDHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes AbroadHomeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.Photo-Illustration: Darrell Jackson; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyUS Customs and Border Protection is seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the United States, and press them into paying the government money, according to records reviewed by WIRED.
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