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The growth of partnerships between local law enforcement and ICE to enforce immigration laws.
Yes: within the and its agents exercise law‑enforcement authorities—yet it is not the same as local police in mission, jurisdiction, oversight, or routine public functions, and those differences shape...
The core difference between -era and -era enforcement was intent and scope: Obama narrowed interior removals by prioritizing serious criminals and recent border crossers and used prosecutorial discret...
—pacts that deputize local officers to carry out federal immigration functions—have coincided with sharper deportation activity where they are deployed and a measurable erosion of trust between immigr...
Obama-era ICE prioritization memos codified a constrained, risk-based approach that directed enforcement resources toward national-security threats, serious criminals, recent border crossers, and repe...