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NH State Police Join List of Law Enforcement Partnering with ICE While Maine Agencies Remain Off the List

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotFebruary 28, 2025Updated:February 28, 20257 Comments2 Mins Read1K Views
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The New Hampshire State Police have signed onto a growing list of law enforcement agencies nation-wide joining an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program, empowering them to work under the agency as immigration enforcement officers.

[RELATED: Illegal Jamaican National Released into US Under Biden Arrested by ICE in Boston After Alleged Assault on Family Member…]

The ICE 287(g) program allows for three types of participants: the jail service model, intended to identify and process illegal immigrants already in law enforcement custody; the warrant service officer, which allows ICE to train local law enforcement to execute administrative warrants on illegal immigrants in jail; and the task force model.

The task force model “serves as a force multiplier for law enforcement agencies to enforce limited immigration authority with ICE oversight during their routine police duties.”

The NH State Police, along with the local Gorham, New Hampshire Police Department, applied to work with ICE under the task force model, empowering them to enforce immigration law. The Gorham Police Department has already been accepted into the program, and the state police application remains pending.

The application comes as NH’s Republican-controlled legislature is working to crack down on illegal immigration.

[RELATED: NH Republican Controlled Senate Passes Trio of Bills Combatting Illegal Immigration, Including a Ban on Sanctuary Cities…]

Last month, the NH House passed three bills to combat illegal immigration: one to ban sanctuary city policies that shelter illegals from ICE, one to officially allow local law enforcement to work with ICE, and one to reject any driver’s licenses issued by other states, such as Massachusetts, to illegal immigrants.

Currently, the NH agencies are the only New England-based ones that have either been accepted into or applied for the program under the task force model. Only one other New England entity, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, is involved with the program at all, participating under the jail service model.

No Maine agencies are involved in the program, and none appear on a list of pending applicants.

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Seamus Othot

Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at [email protected] or โ€ช(401) 216-9160โ€ฌ.

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sandy
sandy
1 year ago

But they are not over budget!

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John
John
1 year ago

Now if only they would go after the NH Drug Cartel…

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
1 year ago

“The application comes as NHโ€™s Republican-controlled legislature is working to crack down on illegal immigration.” Contrast that with the Maine demorat controlled legislature which is working under the guidance of Governess Mills to bring 75,000 illegal aliens into Maine. Perhaps the illegal aliens are needed in Maine’s scores of Chinese run pot farms. At least one of these farms was described on the Maine Wire as having received legal assistance from Governess’ Mills’ very own Brother. Perhaps the pot farms are paying a tithe to help fund Governess Mills’ incipient run for one of Mains’s two senate seats.

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Wooley Moose
Wooley Moose
1 year ago

Maine Public Safety is under the Marxist Rule the Mills regime.
The ground troops are ready and willing to get it done.

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Norman Linnell
Norman Linnell
1 year ago

Aiding and abetting the invasion of our homeland is TREASON ! Commissar Mills and her apparatchiks should be arrested!

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patriot
patriot
1 year ago

Where are the sheriffs…?. come on guys , get on board.. show them some Maine spine . At least say that you’ll do the right thing. Tom Homan ‘s a great leader. We’re not Traitors….

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Olde Crone
Olde Crone
1 year ago

Better get on board Janet. Invest in deportation now. Homan/Bondi/Patel/Musk spotlight landed on Maine when you showed your AZZ to the leader of the free world on national tell-you-a-vision. You cannot keep a lid on your total destruction of Mainer’s treasure, safety and security.

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