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Operation Lone Star

A Texas enforcement program that contributes to high ICE arrest counts.

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Jan 28, 2026

How have state laws mandating local cooperation with ICE changed arrest volumes in Florida, Texas and California since 2020?

States that have enacted laws or policies compelling local law-enforcement cooperation with —most notably and —have seen markedly higher volumes of since 2020 than jurisdictions that limit cooperation...

Jan 27, 2026

How have state-level actions like Texas’s Operation Lone Star affected federal-local cooperation and humanitarian outcomes at the border?

(OLS) has simultaneously inserted into frontline border enforcement and frayed the usual lines of federal-local cooperation, producing a mixed record of operational support, legal conflict, and substa...