'$1,000 per person': Missouri lawmaker proposes paying residents to catch undocumented neighbors

[xocetaceans]

Here are more signs of the coming "Trumptopian" dream:

‘$1,000 per person’: Missouri lawmaker proposes paying residents to catch undocumented neighbors

By Janae' Hancock
Published: Dec. 5, 2024 at 1:39 PM CST

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - New plans are being discussed in Jefferson City this week, including a proposed bounty hunter program for illegal immigrants.

The proposed bill would pay people to catch those they believe to be in the United States illegally.

Senate Bill 72 was pre-filed to the Missouri legislature. It is sponsored by House Representative David Gregory.

Gregory wants to pay Missourians $1000 to find and detain illegal immigrants in the state.

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https://www.kctv5.com/2024/12/05/1000-per-person-missouri-lawmaker-proposes-paying-residents-catch-undocumented-neighbors/

This bill, if enacted, is a good way to tear a state apart, neighbor by neighbor, neighborhood by neighborhood, town by town, and county by county.

SB 72 Creates provisions relating to illegal aliens

Sponsor: Gregory (15)
Current Bill Summary
Journal Page:
Effective Date: August 28, 2025
LR Number: 1003S.01I
Last Action: 12/1/2024 - Prefiled
Title:


SB 72 - This act creates the offense of trespass by an illegal alien which provides that a person shall be guilty of such offense if the person is an illegal alien who knowingly enters this state and remains here and is physically present in the state at the time a licensed bounty hunter or peace officer apprehends the person. Such an offense shall be a felony for a term of imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole with certain exceptions as provided in the act.

Any person who commits the offense of trespass by an illegal alien shall be prohibited from voting in any election, receiving any permit or license to drive, receiving any public benefit, and becoming a legal resident of this state.

Additionally, the Department of Public Safety shall develop an information system for people to report violations of this act which shall include a toll-free telephone hotline, e-mail, and online reporting portal. Any person who makes a report in which an illegal alien is arrested shall receive a reward of $1,000.

The Department of Public Safety shall develop the "Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program" which shall certify applicants to be bounty hunters for the purpose of finding and detaining illegal aliens in this state. Any person with a license as a bail bond agent, general bail bond agent, or surety recovery agent may apply to the program as provided in the act.

Finally, this act creates the "Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program Fund" which shall consist of money appropriated by the General Assembly.

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https://www.senate.mo.gov/25info/bts_web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=523

"May I see your papers, please?"

[BOSSHOG]

1. Do Missouri lawmakers

Have a plan to pay people to do the jobs the state will lose after this horrible plan is enacted? Will any one be murdered.

I’m gonna guess here but this sounds like a master plan cooked up by republicans utilizing their two master tools, hate and ignorance.

[Irish_Dem]

2. They do this in China.

If you rat out a friend, neighbor, co-worker for violating any rule, you get a better job or apartment.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And who will the dozens of animal processing plants in Missouri hire?

https://extension.missouri.edu/media/wysiwyg/Extensiondata/Pro/ExCEED/Docs/Missouri%20Economy_Processing_v2i18_29Nov2021.pdf

Missouri’s more than 140 animal
processing firms - businesses with payroll
employment - supported nearly 17,500
jobs in early 2021.1

[Lulu KC]

7. Enormous issue

Same in many red states.

[raising2moredems]

8. Not just in MO

Texasistan too. I wish I had kept the link to an article where a supervisor at a meat packing plant in texasistan bluntly said whites could not physically do the job.
While I don't wish those who are productive members of society yet are not here technically legal to be deported, I will pop some popcorn and have an adult beverage as I watch those with xenophobia evacuate their bowels into their drawers when the labor pool is gone. Junior is certainly not going to mow the lawn and debutante daughter clean the toilets in the house.

[SARose]

9. Wait til my Texas Rednecks

find out the 300,000 undocumented immigrants in Texas contribute $5 billion a year in taxes to the great Lone Star state!

But wait there’s more! When Dan Patrick lowers your property taxes and the Austin boys pass school vouchers and the State has lost $5 billion a year - what’s going to happen to your taxes? What’s going to happen to your town’s revenue? Hmmmm?

About 40% of the Texas construction industry is comprised of undocumented individuals. Texas cannot produce enough construction workers to sustain its massive growth without these workers.

But illegal aliens dontcha know? 😂

[al_liberal]

4. Easy fix

Report everyone all the time multiple times. The system will collapse under the weight of all of the reports since the vast majority will be citizens anyway.

[brush]

5. Holy crap. Paying neighbors to be East Germany Stasi informants.

And they haven't even figured out where to deport them to.

The Bahamas just rejected trump's offer to taking in deportees.

This Project 2025 advocates have no idea what they're doing.

[Lulu KC]

6. Oh, Missouri

Please. And he is a schmuck.

I lived there for a long time. The good news is that these crazy bills are presented all the time and most of them don't get anywhere. The bad news is that 1. anyone even thought of this and 2. sometimes they actually get passed.

(And wait, a senate bill sponsored by a house rep. Hello, KCTV5, can we talk?)