Weird: Local Police Depts Signing Up To Work With ICE In Huge Numbers

Maybe they’re realizing that it’s a good idea to get illegal alien rapists, murderers, and child molesters off their streets?

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. (big snip)

The “task force” model was discontinued by the Obama administration in 2012 in part over accusations of racial profiling by local officers in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Alamance County, North Carolina. The Trump administration restarted the program in early 2025, with new funding and incentives for states, local police departments and sheriff’s offices.

Funding and stuff sure helps. Not wanting criminals on their streets is something police strive for. Perhaps they ignore those they know who are not criminals, or maybe just got tagged speeding. But, of course we get this whiny crap

Ex-watchdogs warn rush to give power to local police in immigration crackdown risks ‘threat to civil rights’

Homeland Security watchdogs who were forced out of their jobs warn that the Trump administration’s “alarming” rush to deputize hundreds of local police departments to enforce federal immigration law – while gutting independent oversight – risks “a threat to civil rights nationwide.”

When the experienced civil rights watchdogs had their jobs cut last year by the Trump administration, they were in the process of scrutinizing the controversial federal program allowing local police to conduct federal immigration enforcement work, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.

The vexed program gives local, county and state law enforcement officials unusual powers to detain, arrest and interrogate immigrants and turn them over to federal immigration authorities – a system critics say is open to abuse and risks alienating communities from local police.

I’m sorry, but, why do we give a flying f*** if illegal aliens are alienated from local police? They shouldn’t be here, and the job of the police is not to be their buddies, but, to arrest law breakers. Really, I do not care.