Overview
- Procurement documents show a docket of 1.5 million addresses, with vendors receiving batches of 50,000 to verify locations.
- The work includes “enhanced location research” such as time-stamped photos and collection of records to confirm home or employment.
- Eligible vendors include bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, debt collectors, process servers, repossession agents, and other private investigators.
- ICE says contractors must comply with data-privacy and reporting laws and disclose their skip-tracing methods and tools.
- The plan comes alongside record detention levels of more than 66,000 people and a DHS target to hire about 10,000 additional ICE agents.