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Barbara Pflughaupt's avatar

Why are we paying our taxes for this? It’s completely absurd and a waste of funds that could go toward food, housing, and medical care. They’re constantly saying they have no money and they keep paying contractors billions of dollars.

Sun's avatar

That’s the grift. $$$ for the contractors, out of our pockets.

Anita Kirner's avatar

That’s what i think too. Another way to hand out our tax dollars to trumps friends

Hope Sanford's avatar

100%. Look at everthing else with a huge price tag. Warehouses purchased for 4-16 TIMES their value, no bid contracts in the millions and billions, the ballroom, the reflecting pool- KIckbacks and more kickbacks. There is no plan for or ability to squeeze funds from deportees. Think of the deportees you know; they don't have any $$$

RLS's avatar

I'd laugh at the absurdity of this except that I find it horrifying. I hope the Mexican government blocks these people from entering the country. Can you imagine a "bill" collector from another country showing up on your doorstep demanding payment for "fines? Anyone who attempts this is insane, IMO. Someone is going to get hurt.

Christine Delfeld's avatar

I agree with you. A disaster waiting to happen.

Henry Rones's avatar

And on top of demanding fine payments , payment to. the very people who held you in confinement and then forcibly deported you !!?! Why would these deportees - who no doubt harbor serious resentment towards ICE, which no longer has any control over them - agree to pay these fines !!?? This is a study in absurdity and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Write it off !!

And in some countries in Central America where there are violent gangs the “bill collectors” could very well be putting their safety at risk.

Thomas Day's avatar

The US is looking to create a world wide system of enforcement and enslavement. When people tell you what they are going to do, believe them. This is a global shitstorm.

Roseanne Monarch's avatar

So first we kidnap and deport people without due process and now we are going to charge them for that privilege? The U.S. government is completely ungoverned.

barbarahj's avatar

Leave these people alone. Haven't they suffered enough?

Judy Davis's avatar

Why do they owe money? Because they were detained? Because they were “escorted” to another country? Whose choice was that? These people HAD jobs, and were earning $$, and may even have had bank accounts in the US. This is pretty short sighted to think they owe us money. The government owes taxpayers the money they are paying these bounty hunters, because we did not have any say in this process through our Congressional Representatives.

Sun's avatar

These evil contractors must be punished and shamed in perpetuity.

Janice E Habermehl's avatar

I'm dumbfounded. In what world can a $36 million effort for this idiotic idea generate enough fines to make it worthwhile (as in profitable)? And might I add, with the contractors free to decide how the fines will be collected is a gaping hole into which all monies will disappear. HOW IN THE WORLD DID THIS HAPPEN?

sit_with's avatar

this tracks with the Nazi charging the Jews for kristallnacht. destroying lives and fining the people whose lives are being destroyed by the oppressors. deja vu all over again.

Christine Delfeld's avatar

What happens if a deported individual refuses to photograph himself to acknowledge he received the notice of the fine? Do they get to throw him in a detention center in the country he currently resides in? This is all so despicable and wrong - the Trump regime has already ruined their lives by deporting them, many who were asylum seekers sent back to countries where they are in constant danger and some of whom have already been imprisoned or murdered. Why can't they just leave them alone? I guarantee these companies will never collect anywhere near as much as the $36 million of taxpayer money being wasted on this effort. Seriously, if the US government can't figure out how to collect from people who don't have US bank accounts how are these companies going to figure out a solution?

Dan Kowalski's avatar

Just another grift!

Christine Langhoff's avatar

Why do I think that the way to collect might be crypto?

Wendell Bell's avatar

Is there some other, but similar, gesture in these cultures to The Finger?

Jim De Quattro's avatar

The power to be cruel, with impunity. Completely evil.

Jim De Quattro's avatar

It’s a way to further terrorize people. The cruelty is what gets them off.