Mexican cartels offering street gangs up to $50K to assassinate and monitor ICE, CBP agents: DHS
Story by Samantha Kamman • 1d
Mexican cartels have reportedly placed bounties on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago, offering to pay up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in a Tuesday statement that it had obtained “credible intelligence” that Mexican criminal networks are working with domestic extremist groups to coordinate a “tiered” bounty system.
Mexican cartels are working with street gangs in Chicago and groups like Antifa “to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” according to the DHS. The federal agency alleged that cartels “have disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel,” offering different sums of money depending on the actions taken.
According to information gathered from an ongoing investigation, cartels are allegedly offering $2,000 for intelligence gathering or doxxing agents, which includes photos and information about their families.
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