Posted on 02/16/2026 6:19:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
Under the program, police are “deputized” to ICE while they’re also expected to continue doing their regular work. The Dallas Police Department recently rejected a proposal to join, citing concerns that their officers would be pulled away from their normal duties.
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The answer is simply do everything you can working with any state and local law enforcement you can and move all Federal and Nat. guard out of the areas around the blue cities and let them rot. The illegals will move to the blue cities and crime will go way up. Maybe the people will finally get tired of the crime and either vote differently or move.
It must've pained NBC something terrible to report this.
Despicable.
Good one😂
“ Maybe the people will finally get tired of the crime and either vote differently or move.”
They keep moving. They leave crime in their wake. Leftists want to follow their own rules in their personal lives. It’s why the divorce rate is the vast majority
This lawlessness and takeover of our independence will not stop be virtue of leftists recognizing their contribution to it
The blame. It’s one of their top tenets
Indeed.
like locusts ...
Letting lawless sanctuaries stick around isn’t what I voted for in 2024.
I voted for obliteration and draining.
Having local LE keep the peace at rallies and protests is one thing, but engaging them as proxies for federal enforcement is an entirely different issue.
Among other things it deprives local tax-paying citizens of the full engagement of the policing that their taxes pay for.
When local governments create sanctuary cities, conservatives howl that ‘immigration enforcement is a federal matter.’
Except when it isn’t, I guess.
JMO, YMMV
With its designs on 24/7/365 surveillance and control of everybody everywhere, the issue of illegal immigration has allowed the most powerful government in the world to implement its own overarching system of surveillance and control.
They can implement all the laws they want with all the technology they have, but they still need boots on the ground. The New Order won’t be effective unless localities can be managed and controlled.
The only way to do that is to partner with - and eventually take over - local law enforcement.
In the big picture this isn’t really about illegal immigration.
Great.
IN AZ we were ahead of time.
We passed SB1070 in 2010, but the law was defanged by Obama because of suspected racial profiling.
Also, they claimed that only federal government can enforce immigration?!
We need laws like that to get illegals off the streets!
ICE, as hard it is working, cannot possibly get rid of all illegals.
All LEO’s need to cooperate to get this under control!
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