For his second term, Trump has dramatically ramped up arrests and immigration sweeps of people residing in the U.S., with new highly visible incidents and court cases unfolding every week. Under 287(g) agreements among state and local law enforcement agencies, joint operations with ICE could vastly scale up in many states — such raids have already happened this year in Florida, Tennessee and elsewhere. The “task force model” makes police available from local or state agencies to work as extensions of federal immigration police. This would make it vastly more likely for immigrants to get detained during routine law enforcement encounters, and massively expand how many local police could participate in federally-managed “sweep” operations.
Without using 287(g), ICE is still ramping up arrests and raids in California. This led to several days of uprisings against the federal agents and law enforcement in the streets of metro Los Angeles. An anti-ICE political movement leveraging protests and direct actions has picked up across the country. Echoing the Occupy ICE movement of seven years ago, encampments outside of federal buildings started in Seattle and Portland.
Read the report on the new federal task forces creating an ‘ICE army’ here, including hard-to-find details about ICE database tracking systems and much more.
