The Trump administration is trying so hard to hire enough Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, but what if they could just bribe local law enforcement instead?

When you’re tasked with fulfilling Stephen Miller’s dream of deporting 3,000 people per day, you’ve got to get creative. It’s not enough for the Department of Homeland Security to eliminate age requirements for ICE officers or to drastically cut training time or pay retirees as much as $50,000 to return, just to net a paltry 10,000 federal agents. They can hit much bigger numbers by getting state and local law enforcement agencies to help them with their dirty work, and there’s already a mechanism in place for them to do it.

Under the 287(g) program, local law enforcement can “partner” with ICE, which really just means that

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