The Legislature killed a proposed bill that would have paid bounty hunters to track, help deport immigrants. Here's what we know so far.

A Mississippi bill that would have rewarded bounty hunters money to help catch undocumented immigrants has died in the state legislature. Bounty hunters would have received $1,000 to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deporting people from Mississippi.

The bill would have created a program that paid $1,000 to certified bounty hunters who assisted with a successful deportation.

In Mississippi, a bill for a bounty hunter program that would pay people to report and identify undocumented immigrants has died.

A proposed bill in Mississippi proposes certifying bounty hunters to support the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown on a local level.

One bill being discussed in the Missouri Senate would include life imprisonment without parole as a punishment for immigration violations, and would allow Missourians to collect $1,000 bounties for reporting people who are in the country without legal status.