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Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America
THE HILL, Approved, Commentary, National

Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America

By Rep. Lauren Boebert | Commentary, The Hill For four years under the Biden administration, Americans watched our southern border collapse. Record numbers of illegal crossings poured into the country. Cartels flourished. Fentanyl flooded our communities. Criminal illegal immigrants, including members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, embedded themselves in my home state of Colorado and across the United States. The previous administration’s open-border policies were a choice. That chaos ended when President Trump returned to office and Republicans in Congress kept the promise we made to the American people. At the start of the 119th Congress, I voted for the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of illegal immigrants charged with theft, burgl...
Local police partnerships with ICE surge 563 percent nationwide in Trump’s push to remove illegal immigrants
Washington Examiner, Approved, National

Local police partnerships with ICE surge 563 percent nationwide in Trump’s push to remove illegal immigrants

By Anna Giaritelli | Washington Examiner State and local police officers are signing up to assist President Donald Trump‘s mass deportation at a rapid pace, the Washington Examiner has learned, in a dramatic turnaround from the Biden administration. The Trump administration has seen a 563% increase in the number of state and local police departments entering 287(g) agreements with the federal agency United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement since former President Joe Biden left office. Nearly 900 law enforcement agencies across 40 states have entered contracts with ICE and deputized officers to carry out federal immigration laws in addition to local and state policies, according to data obtained by the Washington Examiner. That is...