内容摘要：Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey plays snooker in her neighborhood in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey plays snooker in her neighborhood in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The expansion of agreements “has been unprecedented in terms of the speed and the breath,” said Amien Kacou, attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida.“ICE under the Trump administration has made a push in every state essentially to have them cooperate,” Kacou said.

Immigrants, and their attorneys and advocates say these agreements can lead to racial profiling and there’s not enough oversight.“If you are an immigrant, or if you sound like an immigrant or you look like an immigrant, you are likely to be detained here in Florida,” said Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet, executive director at Hope Community Center in Apopka, central Florida.These concerns are especially acute over the task force model since those models allow law enforcement officers to carry out immigration enforcement actions as part of their daily law enforcement work.

Lena Graber, a senior staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center which advocates for immigrants, said that the Obama administration phased out the task force model in 2012 after concerns that law enforcement organizations authorized under it were racially profiling people when making arrests.The first Trump administration considered bringing back that model but ultimately did not, she said. Graber said using this model, the local law enforcement have most of the powers of ICE agents.

“They’re functionally ICE agents,” she said.

Rights groups say that in areas where 287(g) agreements are in place, people in the country illegally are less likely to reach out to law enforcement authorities when they’re victims of or witness to a crime for fear that authorities will turn around and arrest them instead.Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey chats with her teammates after an evening training session at a school compound where she trains in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey chats with her teammates after an evening training session at a school compound where she trains in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey hangs her training kits on the clothesline in her house in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey hangs her training kits on the clothesline in her house in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, 28, right, and her gym mate warm up during an evening training session at a school compound where she trains in Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)