By recruiting localities to be “the foot soldiers of immigration law enforcement,” the federal government “enabled a diffusion of political consequences and further obscured who held power over immigration,” @briannanofil.bsky.social writes. The result fostered “a form of racialized social control.”
The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.
The Trump administration has enlisted hundreds of state and local law enforcement agencies in its mass deportation campaign by deputizing their officers as immigration agents, extending ICE’s reach far beyond where the agency typically operates.
The Trump administration has enlisted hundreds of state and local law enforcement agencies to support its mass deportation campaign.
