>What? ICE and Homeland Security are federal programs. I am quite aware of this. >Cooperation with local authorities is great, but state authorities aren't th

>What? ICE and Homeland Security are federal programs. I am quite aware of this. >Cooperation with local authorities is great, but state authorities aren't the ones removing people from the country. Sure. Imagine you are an officer of ICE. You sit in the nice office in the federal building in LA. How does your day go by? You deport people? Which people? They are not exactly lining up to your doors to get deported, are they? So you need to find them somehow, bring them to court, get a judgment and then find them again and remove them from the country. This is the police work and you are not equipped to do it. You don't have beat cops, you don't get information from various agencies illegals use (from schools to social services, all under state control despite spending federal money). You were supposed to get referrals from the local law enforcement. You are not getting any. You act on tips and bust 1000 people a quarter in a city, which likely has several million illegals. >I don't know enough to say what states can do to demand funding through the court system, but it passed in the House. If only passing the House had been enough to make a law... > At some point, enforcement is required. Sure, but then states would actually help enforcement instead of impeding it as they are doing now.