Federal representatives stroll near the scene where a male was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer throughout an operation in the Bronx district of New York on Oct. 8, 2026. Charly Triballeau/AFP through Getty Images
The variety of state and regional officers dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has actually doubled in size in the last 8 months, according to a brand-new report from the migration reform advocacy group FWD.us.
The group examined the federal ICE program, called 287(g), that deputizes state and regional cops for migration enforcement. It utilized the company’s public records and info asked for by the Deportation Data Project, which is based at UC Berkeley and UCLA and gathers U.S. migration enforcement information.
More than 29,000 officers were deputized by ICE in between January 2025 and October 2026. That’s even more than the 11,600 deportation officers straight utilized by ICE.
Felicity Rose, vice president of research study and policy at FWD, states her company’s analysis highlights simply how huge a function these collaborations have actually played in the Trump administration’s migration enforcement work. The program was developed in the 1990s under the Clinton administration however was little secondhand– up until President Trump went back to workplace.
“These state and local officers are a key lever in the administration’s quieter approach to enforcement. They’re trading what used to be splashy urban surges, which we saw in Chicago and Minneapolis, for just routine highway stops now under the 287(g) program,” Rose informed NPR ahead of the report’s release.
The most typical and most aggressive kind of these 287(g) collaborations, the Task Force Model, permits cops and constable’s departments to make migration arrests. And, in return, as long as these regional firms stay in “active and ongoing participation in 287(g) enforcement activity outlined” in the contracts signed with ICE, they get cash to invest in brand-new cars and trucks, devices and other enforcement resources.
The Department of Homeland Security has actually stated that 287(g) is a vital tool to minimize criminal offense and unlawful migration.
A more granular appearance
Police in Florida and Texas, integrated, represented about half of the more than 47,000 migration arrests made nationally in between January 2025 and August 2026 through 287(g), FWD discovered.
That is not such a surprise– guvs in both of those states have actually mandated regional authorities indication these offers. And aggressive enforcement by state and regional authorities in Florida and Texas has actually made headings.
Some states not generally understood for aggressive enforcement likewise taped a spike in migration arrests made by deputized officers.
The FWD.us report revealed that 287(g)-accredited officers in Wyoming, New Hampshire and Oklahoma was accountable for big shares of migration arrests in each state in current months.
In Wyoming, deputized officers made 77% of the overall migration arrests in the state in April 2026 and more than 60% monthly given that November 2025, the report discovered. In New Hampshire, the program was accountable for 60% of migration arrests there in June 2026.
In June, near to 50% of migration arrests in Oklahoma were made by state or regional authorities.
Oklahoma’s Highway Patrol signed all of its cannon fodders on to 287(g)offering their officers the power to stop a motorist and possibly make a migration arrest on state highways.
That has had a chilling result on immigrant neighborhoods residing in the state according to Gabriela Ramirez-Perez, the migration and financial security policy expert with the Oklahoma Policy Institute, a think tank that examines state policy.
“Even though Oklahoma may not be in the headlines, it’s definitely a hotspot for immigration enforcement,” Ramirez-Perez stated. “We can say that it’s definitely resulting in a lot of fear in immigrant communities. People are changing their day to day routines to try to avoid getting on the highway, to try to avoid driving as much as possible.”
Financial rewards
The Justice Department previously this summertime used $3 billion in financing for state and regional firms that sign up with the program. The cash can approach staffing and brand-new devices in the coming years.
Florida has actually currently provided numerous countless extra cash to police in the state in exchange for their involvement in the program.
Rose, with FWD, states the pledge of cash seems a driving force behind the rise in 287(g) involvement, and believes it will result in more collaborations in the future.
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