A Mississippi district attorney proposed new legislation Wednesday to pay bounty hunters a reward for helping to deport immigrants in the country illegally.

  • @mkwt
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    6612 hours ago

    Back in the day this was called slave patrol.

    • @[email protected]
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      -111 hours ago

      The US is unusual in having bounty hunters, but they’ve been around continuously for a long time. I’m sure that slaves were tracked down by bounty hunters, but they were around after that as well – it’s not some sort of institution specific to slavery.

      The Philippines – which was a US territory for a while – also has bounty hunters.

  • Sabre363
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    1511 hours ago

    No, the United States clearly isn’t a fascist state, why would even think such a silly thing