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BONUS POD: Bounties for ICE Agents as Trump mulls going after Cartels where they Live

Published | Video Starts at 04:37

… tied to the cartel line actors in the U.S. while the case involves Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, we now know that this is a national security risk. Chicago, by the way, has been a focal point in recent coverage, with local outlets there reporting on federal briefings that cartels are working through the local gangs and offering the local gangs cash bounties scaled to the agent's rank and the level of harm done. This coming from Fox 32 in Chicago. So how does the bounty system well work? It is a tiered system very much like what they use in Mexico, a tiered incentive system for information gathering and doxing. (04:37–04:59)

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Asserts that cartels are using local gangs in Chicago to target federal agents with cash bounties.

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