"The best statewide numbers, which come from the data project and analyzed by 287(g) stats guru
Andrew Thrasher, show that more than 31% of all 287(g) arrests made in Pennsylvania from the start of 2025 through early August took place in York County, even though it only comprises 3.6% of the state’s population."
"More than 71% of 287(g) agreements now use the task force model, according to Titus Consulting, a firm that tracks the agreements. About 7% use the jail enforcement model and more than 21% use the warrant model."
"Indeed, 287(g)
data guru Andrew Thrasher has reported that a whopping 70% of the immigrants arrested in Pennsylvania under the program have no criminal record or pending charges."
"Texas es el estado que concentra la mayor cantidad de estos convenios. Según un registro elaborado por el investigador independiente Andrew Thrasher, con información de ICE, existen 514 acuerdos con 422 agencias policiales texanas."
"One borough with just over 5,000 residents — Schuylkill Haven — has seen at least 59 immigration arrests in about four months, a staggering number. The figures come from Chicago-based ICE watcher
Andrew Thrasher, a law-firm staffer and data expert who regularly crunches federal statistics obtained by the Deportation Data Project through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests."
"This money is being spent in American states and cities — paying over $1 billion for warehouses to jail immigrants (in some cases at 800% over market value), hiring thousands of new ICE officers to terrorize communities and arrest thousands, paying local police to track down children at school through the 287(g) program, and locking people up in dangerous and unsanitary conditions."
"The number of 287(g) partnerships between ICE and state and local law enforcement agencies has
exploded in recent months, in part due to
financial incentives in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (OBBBA) that went into effect October 1 of last year."
"Texas has more 287(g) agreements than any other state. A
tracker maintained by independent researcher Andrew Thrasher, drawn from ICE data, counts 514 agreements across 422 Texas law enforcement agencies, well ahead of Florida’s 352."
"Thanks to state and local 287(g) agreements, local law enforcement is now kidnapping on ICE’s behalf with a
$22,500 bounty offered per child. Across the country, police are coming to kids’ homes under the guise of wellness checks only to arrest and send them to ORR captivity and perilous next steps. Many of these children had been living with family or vetted sponsors and were alone only after ICE abducted these adults."
"Under a new incentive program for its 287(g) partners, ICE offers local agencies up to $22,500 for each unaccompanied child they track down and subject to a 'safety verification,' combining a $2,500 case payment with up to $20,000 more per completed check."
"The most recent arrest data available shows that 9-10% of ICE arrests are a product of the 287(g) program, compared to roughly 3% at the start of last year."
Desde que inició la segunda administración del presidente Donald Trump, los acuerdos suscritos por los estados que más cooperan con ICE experimentaron un aumento impresionante, pues
desde enero de 2025 a junio de 2026, el número de acuerdos 287(g), programas que facultan a la policía estatal y local para ejecutar tareas de aplicación de la ley migratoria,
pasaron de 134 a mil 954, informó Andrew Thrasher, fundador de
Titus Consulting.
"As of June 12, ICE listed 1,954 active 287(g) agreements across 39 states and two U.S. territories, according to the tracker Andrew Thrasher maintains from ICE’s own published data."
"Researchers estimate that the share of people detained through any type of 287(g) program rose to about 10 percent in January, up from about 3 percent a year before."
"Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Delia Ramirez (IL) and Sylvia Garcia (TX), joined by a number of Democratic House colleagues, hosted a shadow hearing on the 287(g) program."
"A dashboard maintained by Andrew Thrasher and sourced from primary ICE data, shows 1,786 active 287(g) agreements with 1,506 agencies across 39 states as of May 5."
"Andrew Thrasher built a page and a map to show where 287(g) agreements are in place. This independent web tool allows users to sort the state and local law enforcement agencies that have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE and to highlight the ones with the highest level of cooperation, the Task Force Model."
"For readers who want to track the total number of active 287(g) agreements across the country,
Andrew Thrasher’s Maxwell Commons maintains the most comprehensive and regularly updated count available. I
sat down with Andrew recently to dig into why this data is so much harder to work with than it looks."
"Still, the mix-up briefly placed his school district on the list of contracted law enforcement agencies ICE keeps online, causing
a stir among advocates and researchers, all without the district's school board knowing."
"The ICE agreement, no longer available on the federal agency’s website,
was first presented by concerned immigration activists Austin Kocher, a professor at Syracuse University, and Andrew Thrasher, an activist concerned about the justice system’s treatment of immigrants. Thrasher provided ICE’s spreadsheet to Oklahoma Watch."
"The
Maxwell Commons Substack, authored by immigration legal system analyst Andrew Thrasher, provides a comprehensive overview of various agreements in different states based on publicly available data. We commend the site to legislators for a visual understanding of the scope of 287(g) agreements."
"Agencies in Kansas and Missouri also have agreements under the jail enforcement and warrant service officer models, where in jails, officers can serve immigration warrants and question detainees about their immigration status. However, the task force model is the most controversial and fastest-growing type of the three."
"(...) a growing number of local law enforcement agencies are signing 287(g) agreements — which several bills in the 2026 Kentucky General Assembly proposed to make mandatory — and local jails are renting beds to ICE. There are currently 36 local law enforcement agencies in Kentucky with 287(g) agreements and 11 local jails that have immigrant detention contracts."
"Many states and localities have also redirected additional lawenforcement resources towards immigration enforcement. State and local agencies are formalizing their roles as frontline immigration enforcers, with the number of 287g agreements growing nearly ten-fold across 2025."
"The number of these agreements increased from 135 in January 2025, when Trump took office, to 1,427 as of February 20, 2026. In 18 states that did not have these agreements before the start of Trump’s second term, local law enforcement agencies have since signed up, and at least eight states have moved to require localities’ participation."
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