The fatal shooting of Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration enforcement officer has prompted some communities to reevaluate local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office signed such an agreement on Dec. 11, allowing sheriff’s deputies to question, detain, and arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally under the ICE 287(g) program. The program delegates certain immigration-enforcement functions to trained state and local officers under federal supervision.
On Jan. 10, dozens of people showed up in front of the sheriff’s office and Lafayette Parish Correctional Center to voice their opposition to the continued federal crackdown on illegal immigration and the sheriff’s office agreement with the federal agency…