Open Season on Immigrants: Bounty Hunter Who Chased Immigrants Pleads Guilty to Impersonating a Federal Agent

AP reports that a bounty hunter who arrested fugitives accused of violating immigration laws has pleaded guilty to impersonating a federal agent and illegal possession of a firearm. A Sacramento, California man pleaded guilty to the impersonation charge on July 24 in connection with his detention of a woman and her 10-year-old daughter, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. The defendant falsely identified himself as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last May while detaining the woman and her daughter in a South San Francisco hotel room, prosecutors said. The woman’s estranged husband had hired th edefendant to arrest the pair on the grounds that an immigration judge had ordered their deportation, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by investigators in Sacramento. The husband was trying to have her deported to gain custody of their son, the affidavit said.

As if immigrants — and immigrant women — did not have enough to be worried about.

KJ