Washington, D.C. (June 17, 2021) – The 287(g) program, created by Congress to enable trained local officers to work in partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), serves as a force multiplier by taking illegal aliens who have been arrested for state or local crimes off the street. Lacking the personnel to address the large population of deportable criminal aliens in the country, ICE has developed 287(g) agreements with 146 law enforcement agencies across 25 states.
Former ICE Chief of Staff Jon Feere, now Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and Mark Krikorian, the CIS executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, discuss the Biden administration’s hostility towards 287(g) and its problematic decision to cancel a 287(g) partnership between ICE and the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office in Massachusetts.
In his Closing Commentary, Krikorian addresses the latest 287(g) agreement cancellation. Though a long-time partner with ICE on 287(g) and detention, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio ended its partnerships with ICE after concluding that the Biden administration’s handling of the programs would mean the release of criminal illegal aliens into the county rather than deportation.
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