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Expansion of 287(g) agreements under Trump administration
ICE received large and growing resources during the Obama years, forming a substantial share of DHS immigration spending even as DHS as a whole also expanded; ICE’s funding and staffing increases supp...
Local and state law enforcement in Minnesota are not uniformly joining ICE operations: Minneapolis Police have publicly distanced themselves and adopted policies limiting cooperation with ICE, while a...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wields broad federal authority to arrest, detain, and remove noncitizens, but that power is circumscribed by court orders, statutory priorities, detention cap...
used and to carry out large-scale interior removals and to operationalize , including chartered and commercial flights, while shifting enforcement priorities toward criminal convictions and national-s...
Local law enforcement in coordinates with through formal agreements and ad hoc operational ride‑alongs that embed federal personnel alongside city, county and state agencies, including under the feder...
287(g) agreements deputize local officers to perform federal immigration functions, producing measurable shifts in enforcement—larger churn of identifications, detentions and removals in jurisdictions...
Signing and hiring bonuses — including offers of up to $50,000 and student loan repayment packages — have been officially advertised to recruit new ICE officers, but a short-lived internal pilot that ...
are administrative requests from asking state or local jails to hold an individual for a short period so ICE can assume custody; under federal law ICE has authority to arrest and detain people for imm...
Lawful permanent residents (LPRs, aka green card holders) and undocumented immigrants both can be arrested and held by , but the legal thresholds, statutory grounds for mandatory detention, and real-w...
Since 2020 state-level legal change has moved in two divergent directions: a surge of statutes and agreements that expand local cooperation with ICE—particularly through 287(g) deputization, state man...
The Obama administration did not adopt a policy of broadly withholding federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary” and continued to fund local governments through routine federal grant progra...
Federal immigration authorities under the have staged concentrated enforcement deployments in — notably the December 2025–January 2026 “” in — and officials in Minnesota and have publicly sued to bloc...
Federal data and watchdog analyses make a clear national-level claim: a majority of people is detaining after jail transfers do not have criminal convictions, but the available reporting and datasets ...
The core similarity is that both administrations used executive authority to prioritize and focused enforcement on people the government labeled removable; the key differences lie in how priorities we...
Yes — courts and advocacy groups have repeatedly challenged the architecture around federal immigration operations, and those challenges have included suits that implicate private contractors either d...
Documented instances where immigration enforcement in courtrooms most commonly take the form of state and local governments suing agencies to block or compel , and of clashes in state courthouses over...
limit cooperation with when agents use deceptive “ruses” primarily by denying access to facilities, refusing to provide material support or consent, and by adopting formal non-cooperation statutes and...
State laws treat undocumented immigrants differently from federal immigration law by operating in a complementary but sometimes adversarial sphere: federal law governs status, admission, removal, and ...
Local jails and private contractors partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through a patchwork of direct contracts, intergovernmental service agreements (IGSAs), no‑bid modifications, a...
Local participation in federal immigration enforcement runs into a tangle of constitutional doctrines: anti‑commandeering limits on federal power, the Supremacy Clause and preemption concerns, Fourth ...