ICE left Minnesota. Now it’s in your local police department

Friends,

Yesterday, the ACLU released a report that every one of you needs to hear about.

When Operation Metro Surge ended in Minnesota, many people exhaled. And honestly, that made sense.

Two months of sustained pressure from faith communities, organizers, and neighbors had made ICE’s bombardment impossible to sustain. That was real.

And so is this.

While the country was watching Minneapolis, the Trump administration quietly signed 1,079 state and local law enforcement agencies into the 287(g) program — a federal agreement that turns local police and county sheriffs into ICE agents. 

Today, 32% of Americans live in a county where that’s already in place.

This is a rapid expansion of federal immigration enforcement through local police.

The ACLU’s new report, “Deputized for Disaster,” documents what this looks like on the ground.

In Florida, local police pulled over a 22-year-old cancer patient and assisted Border Patrol in arresting her father, who was driving her home from the hospital.

At a racetrack in Idaho, roughly 400 people were detained — including U.S. citizens and permanent residents who were zip-tied for hours. More than 100 were arrested on immigration charges. When families tried to figure out who was responsible afterward, the agencies pointed at each other.

That’s what it looks like when the surge goes underground.

We’ve always said this was never going to stop at Minneapolis.

Trump was using us as an example to see what he could get away with. Now he’s found a way to scale up ICE brutality without anything visible to organize against (so they think). 

There’s no big announcement. The county sheriff is doing ICE’s job, so it just starts happening during traffic stops.

At the start of Trump’s second term, 133 agencies were in this program. There are now more than 1,200.

Faith communities in Minneapolis didn’t stand outside for two months so that ICE could come back through a different door.

The organizing infrastructure we built during Operation Metro Surge doesn’t go away — it goes to work on this. 

We’re organizing contact with leaders in communities where 287(g) agreements have been signed without any public notice. But staying connected, ready, and able to respond when it happens in the next city takes resources.

Your support right now keeps that infrastructure in place.

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They might think we’ve stopped paying attention, but they’ve greatly underestimated the American people.

In this together,

Doug

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