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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to a viral video showing a group that apparently hopes to collect bounties on the heads of federal immigration officers issued by Mexican cartels.
The clip, which was posted on TikTok and has been circulating on other social media platforms, shows at least six black males standing on an athletic field with a caption reading, “ICE We’re on the way. Word in the streets cartels put a $50K bounty on y’all.”
One of the men can be seen smiling and pulling a mask over his face as the camera pans out to show those around him, none of whom have their faces covered.
On Friday, DHS posted the video with a warning to the participants.
“FAFO. If you threaten or lay hands on our law enforcement officers we will hunt you down and you will find out, really quick,” DHS stated.
“We’ll see you cowards soon.”
Earlier this week, DHS revealed that bounties of up to $50,000 are being placed on the heads of top federal law enforcement officials.
DHS says Mexican cartels are issuing “explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents.”
Communist militants and gang members have established surveillance networks to monitor the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) in Chicago-area neighborhoods with large foreign populations.
DHS has released details about a “structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel, with payouts escalating based on rank and action taken,” as follows:
- $2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing agents (including photos and family details)
- $5,000–$10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard ICE/CBP officers
- Up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials
While cartels appear to be coordinating with gangs like the Latin Kings in Chicago, they are also allied with Antifa in Portland and other locations across the U.S. where truckloads of supplies are being delivered, agents and their families are being doxxed, and mobs are interfering with enforcement operations.
