The $36 million effort, spread across four companies, relies on firms already working to locate immigrants for the government's deportation surge.

Customs and Border Protection awarded contracts today to four companies to collect immigration fines from people the United States has deported, ending a competition that closed earlier this month after an unusually brief bidding period.

Each contract is capped at $9 million and was issued by the same contracting office. The winners are Global Recovery Group, Caduceus, Response AI Solutions and the Baptiste Group.

The agency wants contractors to travel to homes in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, confirm that a deported person lives there and get that person to photograph their own face as proof that a fine notice was delivered, according to solicitation documents reported this month by Project Salt Box. The agency told bidders it had not identified a way for people without a U.S. bank account to pay what they owe, and said the winning contractor would have to propose a solution.

  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    What an idiotic waste of money. At least only the dumbest worst people will be doing this. Can you imagine showing up to a place people are escaping due to gang violence and death threats and telling someone who was possibly making below minimum wage while in the US that they need to give you money? Hopefully these people come from well to do families because I can’t see them making it out otherwise.

    Realistically these people are going to be taking vacations on taxpayer dimes and harassing locals who already have reason to hate us.

    There are no words for how stupid this is. Truly the worst timeline.

  • REDACTED@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    Honestly, it’s safe to assume that if an American went to foreign soil where people got deported to and demanded money, many of them would not return.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m sorry, the US deports paperless immigrants and when they’ve been succesfully deported asks them to pay for being deported?
    And to do that they hire more goons who have to come up with creative solutions on how to do that? Outside the USA?

    How much more cynical and absurd can it get?

    This country seems to have a neverending supply of spineless amoral assholes who are “willing to do what it takes”.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Okay, suppose I’m a guy who got deported from the US and now I live in Honduras. Some gringo comes to my door, takes a picture of my face, and says I owe the US government $1000 for being deported.

    Why in the ever-loving fuck would I even consider paying any money at all? What are they going to do if I don’t pay? Un-deport me? Assuming the Honduran government doesn’t have any interest in enforcing those fines, why would anyone ever pay them?