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Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants

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A bill introduced and sponsored by Republican legislators in the Missouri Senate would give residents a $1,000 payout for reporting migrants who entered the country illegally.

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There’s no way at all that the internet would have some fun with the web portal by creating various fun spam generators to flood them with garbage. Absolutely not. That’d be crazy.
- Why flood it with garbage when you can flood it with reports about every currently elected Republican in the state?
  
  And once that's done, continue with every republican voter, starting with the ones with signs and shrines in their yards.
- Who's going to report the Governor's mansion this time? Who's pasting the entire script of Bee Movie into the comment field?
edit: and of course you are all obligated when (not if) it goes live to spam it with 100,000 reports of this lawmaker's name and address and any other random not-real reports to clog up their shit
From the same state that thinks viewing a webpage's source is a criminal act.
How many times do these idiots need to get the Bee movie script before they realize these bounty systems are worthless?
- At least once more, it seems
Sounds more and more like Nazi Germany.

There's no way trump can depart that many people, and unlikely that the other countries will want them back, so they will end up in camps.
This bounty is going to backfire. I’m just gonna call them and report every fast food place in the phone book and take in the cash. Does it say the claim needs to lead to an arrest? Probably not.
- Sounds like a good idea until you consider the fact that you'd be subjecting a bunch of people already working ridiculous hours at a crappy job for below a living wage to a lot of harassment.
  
  And that's if you DON'T get someone deported. Which is highly unlikely, since the fast food industry is probably the second-largest employer of undocumented immigrants after agriculture..
  
  So maybe DON'T do that.
  
  But I’ll be rich, and then I can leave this place. Besides, whatever task force is doing this will be overwhelmed. Remember when Utah had that website to report trans bathroom use? It was flooded with bogus claims to clog their system.
  
  Either way, I seriously doubt they actually plan to PAY out. I have to imagine there’s a ton of paperwork that never gets finished.
To be fair, they did the same thing to Mormons in 1838 and got rid of them for a while.
- And that was the last time Kansas City had local control of it's law enforcement.
Don't spam it with nonsense, just report your local republican voters for having a migrant housekeeper/gardener/nanny/lodger or similar. They wont believe it if you report the owner is a migrant and they have republican signs in-front of their house, but they'd have to investigate whether they employed a migrant.
- How does this affect the migrants though?
  
  Ideally it doesn't. It just wastes a lot of enforcement time and energy chasing incorrect leads, and give those who voted for it a taste of what being on the receiving end is like.
Yeah, I don't see this going terribly wrong.
- Melania and Elongated Muskrat come to mind

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