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Partnerships between federal immigration agents and local police have boomed in 2017 – growing to a whopping 60 agencies in 18 states, according to a large batch of new contracts recently posted on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s website.
Eighteen Texas sheriffs departments are now approved to partner in ICE’s so-called 287(g) program – by far the most agencies of any state. By comparison, only three Texas departments partnered with ICE in 2016 – and Harris County, the largest of the three, dropped the program earlier this year citing costs and civil rights concerns.