1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I can’t believe that we have to ask this(!), but I urge you to immediately call for congressional hearings on a deeply concerning pilot program being conducted by iCE. This program aims to pay former law enforcement and military personnel $300 per target to physically track immigrants and verify their addresses for ICE enforcement actions. This initiative is a DANGEROUS overreach!! It effectively deputizes civilians from the general public without proper oversight or training to conduct surveillance on vulnerable populations. The pilot is reportedly part of a broader ICE plan to use bounty hunters (what?!) or skip tracers to confirm immigrants' addresses through data mining and physical surveillance. It raises serious concerns about privacy violations, potential for confrontation, and lack of due process. The scale of this initiative is alarming. ICE documents indicate plans to locate 1 to 1.5?million immigrants. This represents a massive expansion of surveillance on immigrant communities by untrained civilians. I urge you to call for immediate congressional hearings to investigate this program. Using bounty hunters to track immigrants is dangerous and demands thorough scrutiny and likely termination.