The Mississippi 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.

House Bill 1484, or the Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program, was introduced by State Rep. Justin Keen, R-DeSoto County, at the outset of the legislative session.

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.

There is no appetite among House Republicans for a bill that would put a bounty on undocumented immigrants, Speaker Jon Patterson told reporters Thursday. The legislation, which was debated Tuesday in a Missouri Senate committee,