Deputized for Disaster: How President Trump's 287(g) Deportation Force is a Powder Keg for our Communities

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https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2026/02/Deputized-for-Disaster_260227.pdf

This is a must read.

In November 2025, the ACLU initiated a review of all reports of conduct by 287(g)-participating state and local law enforcement agencies since the start of the second Trump administration on January 20, 2025.

This report is the first in-depth and comprehensive review of the nature and impact of the second Trump administration’s unprecedented expansion of the 287(g) program. It builds on prior ACLU research and advocacy, including a 2022 report, License to Abuse, on the 287(g) program during the first Trump administration.

If your state or local law enforcement agencies are participating, this is a tool for organizing and lobbying lawmakers to STOP.

Participation is a disaster as law enforcement resources are drained and redirected, not to mention the costs of being sued and held liable for civil rights abuses under the program.

In addition, blurring the lines between immigration enforcement and community policing seriously undermines public safety as distrust leads to non-cooperation with law enforcement and non-reporting of crime.

If your state or local government is contemplating participation, use this as a tool for organizing and informing lawmakers that doing so would be disastrous.

And if your state and local governments are refusing to participate, use the key findings to inform people who think refusing to participate is a poke in the eye to law and order. The truth is, refusing to participate preserves local law enforcement resources and keeps them focused where they should be: protecting the public safety