The Supreme Court slapped down Arizona in 2012 for trying to enforce its border with Mexico when Obama wouldn't do it.
Will they slap this down?
Agreements that allow local police to work with ICE skyrocket
Agreements
between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement
that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased
by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term,
according to a new analysis of ICE data.
As
of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help
ICE, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of
Trump’s first term, according to the analysis by FWD.US, a nonpartisan
policy organization.
The
Trump administration has called on local law enforcement to support its
growing deportation operations nationwide, reviving a controversial
“task force” model that allows local police officers to be deputized by
ICE to stop people and make arrests based on suspicion that someone is
in the country illegally. ...
ICE’s advertising for the program promised to give law enforcement agencies $7,500 for equipment per trained officer; $100,000 for new vehicles and overtime pay of up to 25% of an officer’s salary.
The
analysis shows 39 states have policing agencies now participating, but
didn’t give the total number of officers now working with ICE.
The
states with the most participating agencies were Florida, with 342
agreements, Texas, with 296 agreements, Tennessee, with 63 agreements,
Pennsylvania, with 58 agreements and Alabama with 52 agreements,
according to the analysis by FWD.US, which advocates for immigration and
criminal justice reforms.
State
and local police agencies and sheriffs departments potentially stand to
gain between $1.4 billion and $2 billion this year if they agree to
participate because of the large infusion of cash from Trump’s One Big
Beautiful Bill, the organization predicted.
“This amount would dwarf all other federal funding for local law enforcement,” the FWD.US report found. ...
