Trump's deportation push is rewiring American policing, ACLU report says

A new ACLU report says President Trump's deportation campaign has grown into a roughly fifty-thousand-person internal enforcement force, pulling in federal agents, state troopers, local police, and even wildlife officers, Axios reports. The group reviewed more than twelve hundred cases across eight states during twenty twenty-five and documented three hundred seventy-five incidents involving force or threatened force, warning that masked operations, unmarked vehicles, and generic gear labeled only 'POLICE' are making it hard for people to know who is stopping them or who is accountable. Per the report, more than two hundred forty billion dollars has been directed into immigration enforcement through congressional reconciliation bills since July of twenty twenty-five, and ICE has paid or promised over two hundred fifty million dollars to deputize state and local police through partnership agreements. That confusion has been a backdrop to violent incidents this year, including four fatal shootings involving ICE agents — and after ICE briefly suspended most vehicle stops in response, Trump reversed the decision, calling the tactic one of the agency's most important tools.

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