LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A memorandum of agreement signed by Arkansas State Police director Col. Tom Hagar and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Madison Shenhan will allow state troopers to perform some immigration officer functions.
The agreement requires troopers to be trained and approved prior to undertaking ICE actions under what is called a Task Force Model.
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The training may be done online or in person.
According to the memo, once a trooper completes the training and is approved they will be able “to arrest without a warrant any alien entering or attempting to unlawfully enter the United States in the officer’s presence or view or any alien in the United States, if the officer has reason to believe the alien to be arrested is in the United States in violation of law and is likely to escape before a arrest warrant can be obtained.”…