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 ICErecordsfound.
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!
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— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov)May 30, 2025
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.
Democrats and groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union argue that local law enforcement should focus on local offenses, while supporters of 287(g) partnerships say they let ICE take migrants from jails without hunting them down in neighborhoods.
Congresscreated the 287(g) programthrough a 1996 law, years before the Bush administration formed the first agreement in 2002 during its post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts.
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