Law Enforcement

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In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more than 40 years of publishing. This article was published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Public Eye magazine.

How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it?

The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in Ron DeSantis’ Florida.

Faith Lazar details the history of the U.S. Right’s relationship to the FBI and the security state, from the early days of the Red Scare and pro-government conservatives to the anti-state militias that arose in the aftermath of Waco.

In this excerpt of the book Safety Through Solidarity, Ben Lorber and Shane Burley share insights on community organizing to build Jewish solidarity.

This episode explores how constitutional sheriffs’ actions have escalated voter intimidation and suppression, with plans to deputize armed citizens and form “posses” to disrupt election processes and intimidate officials.

Sheriffs wield immense power over jails, controlling the lives of a third of the nation’s incarcerated population. What happens when that power goes unchecked, & sheriffs ignore a pandemic’s threat or dozens die from medical neglect?

What happens when the Constitutional Sheriffs network finds an ally in the White House? In this episode, we uncover how far-right networks leveraged the power of local sheriffs to collaborate with ICE in a nationwide crackdown on immigrants.

This episode examines a turning point in the growing alliance between far-right activists and local sheriffs in their resistance to federal authority.