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The role of local law enforcement in cooperating with federal immigration authorities and the impact on immigration enforcement statistics.
Federal immigration enforcement has been visibly concentrated in specific cities and regions this winter — notably Minneapolis and other Democratic-led locales — not because ICE lacks resources but be...
ICE is a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security whose officers and agents are hired as federal employees through standard civil‑service processes (USAJOBS, merit promotion, pre‑empl...
were willing to form cooperation agreements with during the administration; participation was limited and contested, with many jurisdictions refusing or adopting “sanctuary” limits even as federal pro...
Federal immigration officers do not categorically “supersede” state or local law enforcement; ICE is a federal agency whose immigration authorities derive from federal statute and regulations, but tho...
operations over the past year have resulted in multiple confirmed instances where U.S. citizen Native Americans were stopped, questioned, detained or briefly held—often while experiencing homelessness...
GoFundMe’s rulebook bars fundraisers intended to support the legal defense of “violent crimes” and lists specific examples—murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes and crimes against minors—withi...
Local "sanctuary" policies are a patchwork of ordinances, regulations, and practices that limit state and local cooperation with —most commonly by refusing to honor ICE detainers, restricting jail acc...
A simple one-to-one connection between the counties with the highest pre‑raid and the counties where recent raids concentrate cannot be established from the available reporting: the detailed trac anal...
Empirical studies since 2015 overwhelmingly find that local “sanctuary” or limited-cooperation policies reduce the number of deportations ordered from local contacts—Hausman estimates about a one‑thir...
DHS serves as the central aggregator and public publisher of immigration enforcement statistics while is the operational collector of arrests, detentions and removals that feed those statistics; local...
tallies reported by agencies like and are raw counts of convictions that intersect with federal immigration enforcement and often include immigration-specific offenses, whereas per‑capita come from po...