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Jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Sanctuary jurisdictions reacted to the Obama-era Secure Communities program by refusing to cooperate with ICE detainer requests, passing local and state limits on cooperation, pursuing legal and polit...
Federal trial courts and a number of appellate panels have repeatedly enjoined or blocked significant parts of ’s second‑term executive orders — including orders on , , and certain funding freezes — a...
’s immigration-enforcement mix — expanding early in his tenure while later narrowing priorities through the and deferred-action measures — both accelerated deportations and provoked local backlash tha...
Illinois’ designation as a “sanctuary state” traces to the 2017 passage of the Illinois TRUST Act, a law limiting state and local cooperation with most federal immigration detainers and aimed at encou...
Recent court rulings and administration actions in 2024–2025 have substantially expanded the government’s tools to remove noncitizens by: allowing termination of certain temporary legal statuses that ...
have meaningfully reduced routine local cooperation with —limiting detainer honors, jail access, and the sharing of immigration status—thereby making it harder for ICE to rely on traditional local gov...
The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) replaced Secure Communities in late 2014 with the stated goal of narrowing immigration enforcement to convicted criminals and other high‑risk individuals rather ...
Federal law gives authority to seek custody of noncitizens through administrative tools like detainers and administrative warrants, but federal regulations treat detainers as requests rather than comm...
Secure Communities automated a long-standing practice—sending arrestees’ fingerprints to the FBI—so that fingerprints would also be checked against DHS immigration databases, dramatically increasing i...
Federal courts since 2017 have produced a fractured body of decisions about conditioning federal grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1373: multiple district courts struck down the Administration’s co...
Local officials and many municipal leaders have been cautious or noncommittal in publicly responding to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warnings about doxxing and threats to ICE personnel, with ...
The question of whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) nationwide operations are constitutional cannot be answered with a simple yes or no: the agency operates under constitutional and st...