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287(g)- What is it?

287(g) is a voluntary federal-local partnership that authorizes and deputizes local law enforcement agencies to perform duties of federal Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement (ICE).These agreements allow ice to train and authorize specific police officers at local detention centers to act as ICE agents, question peoples’ immigration status and begin the deportation process.
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Warrant Service Model

This type of agreement authorizes state and local law enforcement officers to serve and execute administrative warrants on people determined to be removable that are within their agency’s jail.
LIMITED POWERS

Jail Enforcement Model

This type of agreement allows the federal government to deputize corrections officers in local jails, so that they can act under the supervision of ICE to interrogate people in their custody about their immigration status and funnel people into the deportation pipeline.
MORE POWERS

Task Force Model

This type of agreement allows ICE to Deputize state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws during routine police duties, effectively making them an extension of ice. Local officers are essentially turned into ICE agents.
THE MOST POWERS

How is it funded?

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Sheriffs or police who join 287(g) spend local funds to carry out the federal government’s deportation agenda. Even though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the largest budget of any federal agency, there is no reimbursement from ICE for the use of local resources.

Who is impacted?

People arrested and processed through the 287(g) program are overwhelmingly nonviolent. Often, they are pretextually arrested for traffic offenses so they can be questioned about their immigration status, have immigration proceedings initiated against them, and then be deported.
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Where is it?

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ICE has signed 777 Memorandums of Agreement for 287(g) programs covering 40 states. These include JAIL ENFORCEMENT MODEL agreements with 113 law enforcement agencies in 27 states, WARRANT SERVICE MODEL agreements with 278 law enforcement agencies in 36 states, and 287 TASK FORCE MODEL agreements with 386 agencies in 32 states.

Does your local sheriff or police department participate?

Unite to end 287(g)

There's an opportunity to organize, resist, and overturn the 287(g) agreement in your community. Remember, these are voluntary agreements that your local police are entering into with ICE. Your state and local tax dollars are funding it, and that gives your community leverage to demand its termination.  So organize your neighbors and begin working to force the termination of all 287(g) agreements in our communities.  Here are some steps your community can take:

1.

Protest

Organize an #EyesOnICE protest in your community.  It's important to bring attention and spread awareness.  

2.

Petition

Create a petition for your community that demands the end to the 287(g) agreement. 

3.

Organize

You're not alone in this struggle.  Use that to your advantage and work to spread #EyesOnICE to other communities in your state with 287(g) agreements. 
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