The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for state and local law enforcement officers to participate in mass deportation efforts, an unprecedented move that could deputize thousands of officers with the power to arrest immigrants across the US.
A late January memo from the US Department of Homeland Security invokes a 1996 provision that allows the agency to give state and local police immigration enforcement powers in certain circumstances.
It serves as a call to action to jurisdictions that have expressed a desire to help implement President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. And it could result in local police and ...
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