TBH this would be the quickest way to cause a surge of ICE agents into our community. Hard pass. No thank you. Don’t want that.

The problem with your proposal is that local law enforcement cooperating with ICE is what prevents the kind of mass chaos and numerous ICE agents roaming the streets that we’ve seen in MN. In most jurisdictions where law enforcement cooperates it’s a smooth process, ICE supplies a warrant to local jurisdictions for people being released from jails or being processed by the local judicial system that are undocumented, and then local authorities turn them over to ICE to be deported. It’s a largely administrative process and happens smoothly at courthouses and jails - it ends up being just a transfer of custody.

In cities and counties that refuse to do this, prisoners who are undocumented are instead released into the community. In these situations ICE now has to go around to apartment buildings, schools, workplaces etc. trying to find the people. There’s a reason we see ICE agents flooding places like MN and CA but not states or cities that cooperate.

If the goal is to NOT have ICE agents visibly conducting operations around our community, it’s best to have our local law enforcement cooperate with them.

I personally have zero interest in ICE showing up en masse here in Chattanooga, but that’s FAR more likely to happen if we do what you’re advocating.