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The recruitment campaign is eroding public trust, especially in immigrant communities, and prompting concerns about the impact on community safety.
ICE agents can and have worn vests that look like or literally say “POLICE,” a practice documented by advocacy groups, congressional offices and news reporting and criticized as misleading to immigran...
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...
delegate specified federal immigration authorities to state and local officers, changing routine local policing by embedding immigration enforcement into local jails, patrols, and task forces and expa...
—local and state rules that limit voluntary cooperation with federal immigration authorities—have reduced routine, formalized channels of collaboration between many municipal police departments and , ...
are confronting concrete staffing and budgetary pressures as ICE’s recruitment campaign—backed by large bonuses, loan forgiveness and a major —pulls officers toward federal pay and benefits, forcing s...
Supporters argue that robust law enforcement preserves public safety, enforces , and disrupts — goals now explicitly restated in recent and agency mission statements . Critics counter that enforcement...
Local jurisdictions and their law enforcement partners have reacted to ICE’s unprecedented hiring surge with a mix of operational cooperation, financial opportunism, rapid policy shifts and visible pu...