ICE Claimed The Cartel Have Put $50k Bounties On Agents, They Lied

When ICE wants sympathy, it doesn’t go to therapy. It goes to the press.

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By André Costa | 17 October 2025

This week, the Department of Homeland Security began pushing a story that Mexican cartels have placed bounties on ICE and CBP agents, with tiered payments, they said, like some deranged loyalty program for assassins. Two thousand for information, five thousand for assaults, fifty thousand fo…