How ICE is Buying America’s Local Police Forces
Federal immigration partnerships are paying local police — and quietly redrawing the lines between state authority and federal power.
In Washington, power rarely announces itself with masks, vests, and jackboots. More often it arrives with grant money.
You might have heard of 287(g) partnerships, which enable local police and sheriff’s offices “to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement take into custody people they say are in the country illegally.”
What you may not have heard i…
