DHS: Mexican Cartels Offer Bounties up to $50K to Kill ICE, Border Agents

Mexican criminal organizations, working with “domestic extremist groups,” are offering cash bounties to assassinate U.S. federal agents, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.

Citing “credible information,” DHS said the cartels are specifically targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection personnel in Chicago and other U.S. cities.

“These criminal networks have issued explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” the DHS said in the release.

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