Missouri bill would put bounty on undoc immigrants..$1000 to persons whose tips lead to capture

[Demovictory9]

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/01/28/missouri-bill-putting-a-bounty-on-undocumented-immigrants-faces-fierce-resistance/

Missouri bill putting a bounty on undocumented immigrants faces fierce resistance
‘It is inhumane to say people should be hunted like a sport,’ said Aura Velasquez, who has been a U.S. citizen for five years.


A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over whether the state should put a bounty on undocumented immigrants — set the tone for this year’s debate on immigration and the state’s role in border security.

The most aggressive approach, in a bill filed by state Sen. David Gregory, would award a $1,000 bounty for tips that result in the arrest of a person present in the United States without authorization. Gregory, a Republican from Chesterfield, wants to authorize bounty hunters, usually employed by bail bond businesses to catch absconders, to track down people identified in tips.

And if the tip proves accurate, the person arrested would be charged with “trespass by an illegal alien,” and subject to life in prison without parole if federal immigration authorities declined to take custody.

“This bill seeks to create an ICE program at the state level,” Gregory told the Senate Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee. “That’s essentially all it does. This is an ICE program inside the state of Missouri.”

[sakabatou]

1. The QOP inflicts nothing but cruelty

I hope the tip line is flooded with spam, bullshit, and other stuff.

[dalton99a]

2. Life in prison without parole for being undocumented.

[Celerity]

5. that is utter madness

[msongs]

3. of course the christian churches will rise up in mass protest of this. yeah right nt

[Skittles]

9. most of those calling in the tips would call themselves "christian"

BET ON IT

[BOSSHOG]

4. Bounty on Humans

Trumps America. So what will happen when humans are killed by those directed by conservative values? Let the PR nightmare continue. And it will.

[Demovictory9]

12. They are kind of doing the same with abortion..in Texas..asking men to report on women

[Prairie Gates]

6. Gross

[lapfog_1]

7. life without parole

how much would that cost the idiots in MO?

I say lets move 1 million undocumented into the state, after they give their names and addresses to 1 person, let him or her collect the $1B dollars ( to be used in the next election cycle to bribe voters to vote democratic ). then
overturn the law and release every undocumented with $20,000 to "travel home". Charge it all to the taxpayers of MO.

1 million undocumented gone for the low low price of $21B dollars.

I'm sure the taxpayers won't mind, at least while inflation is so high because of all the workers that left the state.

[harumph]

8. cruel and unusual -

[Solly Mack]

10. ...

[Norrrm]

11. Report all those that you have not seen their proof of citizenship or legal residence.

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You might be wrong, but the state will pay to check it out.

After all, you are reporting it in good faith if you have not seen that proof.

OK!