MMW: ICE will buy back their cars in 2029 for pennies on the dollar in no-bid deals
Evidence: I live in Lafayette, LA. We have a pretty big ICE presence because LPSO (our sheriff office) is very collaborative and they have offices here. One thing I've noticed about their agents, is they're driving very nice/luxury vehicles and rotating several of them between agents as they use them as patrol vehicles. These are mostly Wagoneers and GMC Denalis. There's also an AT4 and a RAM in a very nice trim. I'm into cars and see these cars every day in a parking lot I pass. These vehicles cost close to $100K each. I have driven past an ICE checkpoint so I've seen them in the field along I-10 in Scott (very common exit) and they parked their luxury trucks along the side of the highway.
The budget for ICE exploded in 2024 when Republicans got their way and they immediately used it to buy a bunch of new toys. Now here's my theory: they're going to buy these $100k trucks as personal vehicles right before Trump leaves office in 2029 and they're going to be sold for next to nothing in no-bid contracts with the agents that are driving them and the rest of their cronies, with the justification they reached a sort of "end of service life". I'm witnessing it first hand in what may be one of the biggest cases of government fraud in US government history.
Date: 2029