The Expansion of Local Law Enforcement Power to Carry Out Trump’s Mass Deportations
As the Trump administration looks for new ways to achieve its political and xenophobic goal of deporting 1 million people a year, it is deputizing local law enforcement officials to act as immigration agents through the rapid expansion of the 287(g) program. American Oversight is investigating the potential for civil rights violations and abuses of authority from this escalation of immigration enforcement power.