Missouri Floats Program to Deputize Citizens as Migrant Bounty Hunters

Residents signed up to the program could be paid $1,000 for reporting undocumented migrants to authorities.

A Missouri lawmaker wants to create a program which would give residents $1,000 payouts for reporting illegal immigrants in their communities to authorities.The bounty-hunter-style system was proposed by Senator-elect Davod Gregory, who wants to allow regular bail bond agents to be certified to go after those who crossed the border illegally.

Gregory's proposed bill would create a 'Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program', which would award $1,000 payouts to those who make eligible reports to the State Highway Patrol. Migrants would then be incarcerated 'without eligibility for probation or parole'.'The harm this would cause to mixed-status families and their communities can not be understated,' DeAzevedo added.Newsweek reached out to Gregory via email for comment Thursday afternoon.

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