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Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
On the campaign trail and in recent days, Donald Trump has detailed extensive plans for immigration crackdowns and mass deportations during his second term as United States president. Run by the US Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part, fusion centers emerged in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks as a counterterrorism initiative for integrating intelligence between federal, state, and local law enforcement. In addition to undermining the entire purpose and premise of sanctuary city laws, STOP researchers point out, such erosion of guardrails around data sharing broadly could easily become a national security issue if a foreign actor were to infiltrate a fusion center.
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