A new report by the Prison Policy Initiative reveals the critical and largely hidden role that local jails are playing in advancing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda during his second term.

“ Hiding in Plain Sight: How Local Jails Obscure and Facilitate Mass Deportation Under Trump ,” concludes that local jails have become “an essential part of implementing President Trump’s mass arrest and deportation agenda,” despite longstanding “sanctuary” policies intended to curb such collaboration.

“The Trump administration is transforming what are normally civil immigration matters into more serious federal crimes,” according to the report. “This shift hides the true scale of immigrant detention from public view, which is often reported as only those in ICE custody and does not

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