Bounties.

State Sen. Jake Hoffman wants public funds to finance the victimization of people he already hates.

From AZ Mirror, written by Gloria Rebecca Gomez, dated 2/20 -

Arizona Republicans want to pay police bounties for immigrant deportations

Arizona police departments would be incentivized to target people they believe are undocumented under a Republican bid to award them a $2,500 bounty for every arrest that ends in a deportation. 

The move represents the GOP legislative majority’s latest foray into immigration policy, which has taken on a decidedly hostile tone in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election victory and his stated goal of deporting millions of immigrants. 

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Sponsored by Sen. Jake Hoffman, the leader of the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus who has built a reputation for hard-ball politics and controversial proposals, Senate Bill 1111 would set up an “Arizona Deportations Fund.” That fund would be used to disburse bounties of $2,500 to law enforcement agencies every time the arrest of an undocumented person leads to their removal from the country by federal officials.

 

The bounty bill was created by a striker, amending a bill from Hoffman, that while a bad one, was a more conventionally bad one.

The amended bill is absolutely vile.

However, I believe that it can be made palatable with one minor change.

Instead of giving a financial reward to local law enforcement agencies for targeting people with skin darker than a Sun City golfer's tan, award them bounties for going after people who have committed treason, use their positions of public trust to give aid and comfort to traitors., or simply profit from treason.

Hoffman and his ilk may not like that (if nothing else, such a provision would utterly decimate the R caucus membership), but it would actually benefit civil society.

Unlike Hoffman's bigotry-filled scheme.