287(g) Agreements Are Reshaping Local Policing Across the U.S.

ICE had 135 active 287(g) agreements across 21 states at the end of 2024. As of May 2025, it increased to over 588 agreements in 40 states, with 83 more pending.

WASHINGTON — The 287(g) program doesn’t sound like a headline. It’s named after a clause in the Immigration and Nationality Act. But beneath that bureaucratic number is one of the most controversial—and rapidly expanding—tools in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement arsenal.

Expanded since January, 287(g) is turning local cops into federal immigration agents. And for immigrant communities, especially in places like Florida and Texas, the impact has been swift, deep, and chilling.