Federal immigration enforcement agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rely on collaboration with local jails in two key ways:

• to find people in state custody, including those arrested for minor offenses, and take them into federal immigration custody, to try to deport them;
• to hold people already in federal immigration custody as they try to deport them.

We’re working to make sure Maine’s public has information about how this works and how state and local resources are used to support federal immigration enforcement. Open the menus below to see the results of our records requests regarding local jails’ collaboration with federal immigration enforcement agencies.