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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.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Squeezes water from a rock

[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

Actually having them squeeze water from rocks is one of the approved recovery methods. Nestle had that one added in, so it has to be a few billion gallons for each $1, but it's going to be bottled and sold as the pure, clean taste of human suffering so I imagine it will sell well.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

This sounds more expensive than the fines they seek.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 9 points 6 hours 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.

Mexico should lock these people in prisons and charge them while they await trial before deporting them back to the US

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 17 points 10 hours 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.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I suspect a lot of these collection agents are going to and dissapear

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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".

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Capitalism doesn't have a bottom of the barrel. You can keep scraping away that bottom for decades, and you'll always find someone willing to debase themselves morally for a chance at becoming part of the aristocracy temporarily.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

and get that person to photograph their own face as proof that a fine notice was delivered

Whose ridiculously stupid plan is this, exactly? I would love to know who actually proposed this. I swear this is just one giant trolling routine

[-] artyom@piefed.social 16 points 13 hours ago

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.

LOL how about how do you plan to enforce a fine on someone in another country? Are you going to invade them all?

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 39 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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?

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago

U.s agents are definitely going to be getting murdered doing this.

[-] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

No agents will be going anywhere. This is just a handout to 4 firms, presumably shell companies connected to the contracting office. Just theft of taxpayer money, the US government currently is just a free for all scam machine for insiders.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

One would hope.

Also, not agents. Contractors.

[-] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 6 points 14 hours ago

Woohoo yet another reason to invade a foreign nation 🥳

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

kinda sounds like they're working up some manufactured consent to me...

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Don't get me excited!

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 8 points 16 hours ago

Yeah that's what I don't get either

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

And if they don't pay? Will they be double deported?

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Next they will build factories and make people work their debt off. You know, a little light slavery.

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Super imported, which means invaded if trump gets hurt feelings

[-] LdyMeow@sh.itjust.works 24 points 16 hours ago

Lmao. Fuck this country.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

The cruelty is the point.

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 18 points 16 hours ago

america must be really proud of itself, inventing ever new ways of sticking in the knife and twisting it.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

This is how he plans to make Mexico pay for the wall

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