ICE Enters into Unprecedented Number of Agreements With Local Law Enforcement
Despite Democrat naysayers and cries in blue districts of “we don’t want you here” the number of agreements between local police and ICE are skyrocketing!
According to reports, cooperative 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.
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.
Despite the overall dramatic increase, not all cities and jurisdictions support the program. The Dallas Police Department recently rejected a proposal to join, citing concerns that their officers would be pulled away from their normal duties. And the Montgomery County, Maryland, district attorney and police chiefs’ association said in a joint statement that none of its departments had signed any agreements with ICE. The county borders Washington, D.C.
“The Montgomery County Detective Bureau and police departments in Montgomery County do not enforce civil immigration orders; enforceable warrants must be signed by a judge,” the statement read.
But in New Orleans, while local leaders do not want to participate, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order directing state law enforcement agencies to help in federal immigration operations, including encouraging local departments to sign on to the ICE program.
The “task force” style program 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.
ICE’s advertising for the program promised to give law enforcement agencies $7,500 for equipment per trained officer; $100,000 for new vehicles and overtime pay of up to 25% of an officer’s salary.
The analysis shows 39 states have policing agencies now participating, but didn’t give the total number of officers now working with ICE. The states with the most participating agencies were Florida, with 342 agreements, Texas, with 296 agreements, Tennessee, with 63 agreements, Pennsylvania, with 58 agreements and Alabama with 52 agreements.
The Trump administration has championed the program. ICE said on its website that it “recognizes the importance of its relationships with law enforcement partners—including state, local, and tribal agencies—to carry out its critical mission.”
By delegating duties, the program makes it possible to better protect “the homeland through the arrest and removal” of immigrants “who undermine the safety of our nation’s communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws,” ICE said on its website.
“Despite Democrat naysayers and cries in blue districts of “we don’t want you here” the number of agreements between local police and ICE are skyrocketing!” says a man blinded by the light. This shows how Bill drinks the Kool-Aid and does not listen at all to the other side.
One of the reasons Democrats give for Sanctuary Cities is a federal funding failure to support local police. As in “no pay, no work.” They do not want to do the Feds job without pay. Amazingly, when Trump offered to pay them, cover their costs, they said yes, one of their main reasons for not helping is now satisfied.
FYI: and for Bill’s illumination, another reason is to garner better community support of police. Having their communities live in fear of being taken away from loved ones to unknown locations by masked men without papers tends to make people shy about telling the police where the real criminals are.
But now Trump is using your tax dollars to add resources to his cruel and unusual deportation mandate of the brown people. He does this with 287(g) program created during Bill Clinton’s administration. Yeah, Trump needs Clinton to get things done right! Trump adds a lucrative monetary spiff which did not work early in 2025, (gee, Bill did not report that, did he?) so he tossed even more money at them in September 2025: $7,500 for equipment per trained officer; $100,000 for new vehicles and overtime pay of up to 25% of an officer’s salary. Call that $25K. In September Trump added: ICE will fully reimburse participating agencies for the annual salary and benefits of each eligible trained 287(g) officer, including overtime coverage up to 25% of the officer’s annual salary. (that’s $77k per officer). And they put a bounty on brown heads as law enforcement agencies will be eligible for quarterly monetary performance awards based on the successful location of illegal aliens provided by ICE and overall assistance to further ICE’s mission to Defend the Homeland: 90% – 100% – $1,000 per eligible task force officer, 80% – 89% – $750 per eligible task force officer, 70% – 79% – $500 per eligible task force officer.
For the non-criminal misdemeanor crime of border jumping that adds to our GDP, and just figuring the start-up cost alone, Trump spends hundreds of millions just for TX (296), FL, (342) TN (63) PA (58), and AL (52) plus, being fiscally conservative, let’s go with ONE agreement per the other 35 States participating, one officer, and one arrest for all, so that’s a minimum of $195M for 850 deportations. Hopefully, they will make it up on volume of deportations, but pretty sure all we will do is explode the deficit given the magnitude of the start-up cost alone for this. The incremental cost of more deportations is lower, say even $1,000 per nab. But you will never cover that start-up cost; you are pissing money into the wind looking to profit on volumes we have yet to see.
As Larry said, with big government you get big waste. And the bigger the program, the shorter the schedule, the bigger the waste. This one is really big and has a schedule they failed on before day one. They cannot deport 20M in four years. They are having issues getting to 1M in Year One.