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287(g) program
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A new analysis from the Urban Institute examines the potential public safety consequences of expanding 287(g) agreements, which deputise local police to enforce federal immigration law. The report weighs whether broader immigration policing by local agencies improves safety or undermines it, and it comes as the program's expansion remains a live policy debate in the United States.
- 2Critics say ICE hides agents within local police via 287(g)●“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind ma
A critic of US immigration policy says the Trump administration is expanding and disguising its ICE force, pointing to unmarked vehicles, masked agents, and partnerships with local law enforcement under the 287(g) program, which deputises local officers to enforce federal immigration law. The practice is being described as 'the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement', raising concerns about accountability and identification of agents carrying out arrests.
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Benton County in northwest Arkansas has approved funding for participation in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local law enforcement to cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigration enforcement. The move means sheriff's office staff can be trained and authorized to carry out certain federal immigration functions locally, a decision likely to draw debate over public safety, trust in law enforcement, and local resources.