President Donald Trump dramatically expanded a little-known program allowing local law enforcement to assist deportation operations even in liberal states, documents show.
Since 2019, more than 1,350 local agencies have penned agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including 68 from Democratic states and 88 in swing states, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of ICE records found.
Liberal activists and officials are coming up with ways to thwart the contracts, known as 287(g) agreements, after Trump’s officials gained a foothold for ICE around the country under his first and second terms.
Join the rapidly growing number of agencies teaming up with ICE to keep their communities safer from criminal aliens through our 287(g) program.
The 287(g) contracts are “the most effective tools [ICE] agents can use to integrate with local and state law enforcement,” Chad Wolf, former Department of Homeland Security head in Trump’s first term, told the DCNF.
He now leads homeland security and immigration policy at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.
Congress created the 287(g) program through a 1996 law, years before the Bush administration formed the first agreement in 2002 during its post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts.
ICE later grew the 287(g) program from 35 jurisdictions to nearly 150 under Wolf’s leadership, he noted in comments to the DCNF.
The contracts fall into three categories: one allowing jail authorities to identify and transfer deportable migrant inmates to ICE, another letting police interrogate or arrest based on immigration violations during normal duties, and a third that involves ICE training officers to execute immigration warrants on migrants in jail.
Blue state Dems don’t like that very much:
……….Washington state, Oregon, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, and New Mexico already have state-level policies banning 287(g) partnerships, ICE’s website and state records show. Democrats in other states aim to follow suit.
Maryland’s Democrat-led legislature passed legislation on Tuesday that would ban the contracts despite nine local agencies signing them, and Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said on Friday that he is “looking forward to” approving it, local media outlets reported.
They allow illegal aliens to run rampant in their cities and don’t want ICE to do anything about it.
ICE is arresting murderers, violent child rapists, and gang members, along with the foreign nationals who are getting deported for being in the country illegally. They were working to arrest convicted pedophiles and murderers while Renee Good tried to run over one of the officers and Alex Pretti showed up with a gun while interfering with law enforcement and resisting arrest.
They’re also arresting Somali nationals who commit murder, billions of dollars in welfare fraud, and fund the Al-Shabaab terrorist group.
The anti-ICE mob isn’t interested in the facts. They are crisis actors for the Left. Violence and chaos are the methods. They call themselves “legal observers”, a made up term with no legal standing. They’re just paid, organized thugs interfering with the apprehension of illegal alien criminals.
Dems were all for enforcing the immigration laws until illegals became their political tools. Now that our laws are being enforced, the Left is losing its mind.
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