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Law Enforcement Support Center

A tool used by ICE to share fingerprint results with DHS systems and determine immigration status.

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Feb 1, 2026

How do local jails and law enforcement partnerships affect the number and composition of ICE arrests?

Local jails and formal partnerships between and state or local law enforcement—most notably the and fingerprint-sharing systems like —substantially increase both the number of and skew who is apprehen...

Jan 31, 2026

How do state and local police departments collect and report suspects' immigration or citizenship status in homicide cases?

State and local police typically learn a ’s immigration or citizenship status through booking and fingerprint-based checks that can be shared with federal databases, while actual decisions rest with f...