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In the nine months since the Trump administration revived a controversial immigration enforcement program, partnerships between local police and ICE to detain and arrest undocumented people have exploded across Florida.

Palm Beach County leads South Florida in the number of agreements that Gov. Ron DeSantis touted would lead to “street-level” enforcement .

Delray Beach Police was the lone major department that, up until Nov. 4, had not signed into a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the rest signed the same agreement this spring and summer, according to a public database maintained by ICE.

Under the 287(g) program, ICE operates three different models that give local law enforcement the ability to act in some

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