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A program deputizing local officers to enforce federal immigration laws.
Yes — ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol (part of Customs and Border Protection, CBP) are separate agencies under the Department of Homeland Security but they routinely work together and share enforcement...
ICE’s authority to demand identification has historically operated within a shifting legal and political framework, and recent reporting shows courts and advocacy groups now say ICE may use race, lang...
The majority of ICE agents locate people to detain and deport through a mix of referrals and frontline encounters: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) processes migrants apprehended at the border...
The authority for ICE officers to arrest under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226 and 1357 is bounded by statutory categories, regulatory designations, and required training and certification: officers must be designat...
ICE agents receive federally standardized basic courses at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and ICE-specific follow-on programs that emphasize immigration law, investigations and tactical s...
The statutory backbone for ICE’s power to arrest and detain noncitizens is found primarily in the Immigration and Nationality Act and its implementing statutes—most notably 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226 and 1357—w...
The evidence shows that ICE has deployed different arrest tactics in Democratic-leaning (“blue”) and Republican-leaning (“red”) states: a preponderance of arrests in jails and prisons in red states ve...
Texas is a focal point for ICE enforcement: available reporting shows the state accounts for a disproportionately large share of recent arrests and detention capacity, a reality tied to explicit state...
287(g) deputizes local officers to perform federal immigration functions, shifting day‑to‑day policing toward immigration enforcement and producing predictable consequences for community trust and leg...
Immigration enforcement officers at the federal level are required to complete specific basic law-enforcement training programs—most commonly courses run through the Federal Law Enforcement Training C...
The Obama administration both expanded and later reined in two key programs that tied local policing to federal immigration enforcement: Secure Communities was pushed widely into jurisdictions early i...
I‑200 and I‑205 are ICE administrative warrants—internal authorization forms that document ICE’s authority to take someone into immigration custody but are not judicially issued or reviewed, and there...
The 287(g) program formally deputizes designated local officers to perform specific immigration-enforcement functions on behalf of ICE, bringing federal authority into jails and, in some models, onto ...
The 287(g) program is a federal mechanism that deputizes selected state, local, and tribal officers to perform defined immigration-enforcement functions under ICE supervision, and it has shifted incen...
Between 2009 and 2017, ICE relied on a suite of statutory authorities and administratively-run programs to identify, arrest, detain and remove noncitizens—most prominently Enforcement and Removal Oper...
The Obama administration built internal oversight around agency-wide enforcement priorities, new inspection offices and modified detainer practice to channel limited DHS resources toward national-secu...
DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews and Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits paint a recurring picture: DHS components including ICE have inconsistent oversight of use‑of‑force prac...
Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to delegate specified immigration-enforcement functions to designated state and local la...
The legal basis for immigration enforcement rests primarily on federal statutes—the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and implementing regulations—and the executive branch’s duty to “faithfully ex...
ICE’s field training combines classroom instruction on immigration law and policy, tactical skills such as firearms and arrest procedures, language instruction, and modules on use-of-force and de‑esca...