Report Says State and Local Officers Working With ICE Have Doubled
A report indicates that the number of state and local law enforcement officers working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has doubled in the past eight months across the United States.
Sioux Falls, SD, October 27, 2026 —
A report indicates that the number of state and local law enforcement officers working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has doubled over the past eight months, describing an increase across the United States.
The information provided does not identify the report, give the number of officers involved, or state the starting and ending dates of the eight-month period. It also does not explain how “working with” ICE is defined or how the figures were gathered. Those details are needed to assess the scale of the increase and what kinds of cooperation it includes.
The reported doubling is a change in the number of officers, but without a baseline count, the total size of the increase cannot be determined from the available information. The summary also does not break the figures down by state or locality, so it is not possible to tell whether the increase was spread broadly across the country or concentrated in particular areas.
No information was provided about the specific duties of the officers, the agencies involved, or the circumstances behind the reported change. The summary also does not describe any effects on law enforcement operations or on people affected by immigration enforcement. Those matters cannot be established from the reported figure alone.
The finding, as summarized, establishes a national increase over an eight-month period. Further details about the report’s methods, definitions and underlying counts would provide the context needed to interpret the change more precisely.
Story summarized from the original created by Jaclyn Diaz on www.npr.org, see more information here.
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