ICE revived the 287(g) task force model, which deputizes local police as immigration agents, in January 2025 after it had been shut down for about a dozen years over abuses, including Latino drivers being targeted at up to nine times the rate of others. In September 2025, ICE added financial incentives: a $100,000 vehicle stipend, a $7,500 per-officer equipment stipend, quarterly bonuses, and salary/overtime help. Participation grew from under 500 agencies when Ingram, Texas signed up in October 2025 to more than 1,900 agencies in at least 30 states, with over 29,000 deputized officers, by the time ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine published an investigation into Ingram: within a year its two-officer department had handed over the equivalent of about 10% of the town's roughly 1,900 residents to immigration agents.
How to roll it backDHS can end the task force model's financial incentives and expansion. Congress can restore the civil-rights oversight that led the program to be phased out under a prior administration.
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