Homeland 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.

Only right-leaning outlets are covering this.

How each outlet headlined it

• WIRED left

  Homeland 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.
• Andrew Couts center

  NEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
• dell cameron center

  NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
• maddy varner center

  DHS is hiring bounty hunters to find people in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras who have been removed from the country but still owe civil penalties. w/ @dell.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...