Justice
Where Immigration Enforcement Is on the Local Ballot
In Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Maryland, sheriffs’ and other local races have become referenda on local cooperation with ICE.
Local officials wield great power over a county’s immigration policies. Many of their decisions escape widespread attention, but the organizing against ICE partnerships broke through in primaries this year, helping topple incumbent sheriffs in Milwaukee and in Charlotte.
The scope of local immigration enforcement is now on the ballot in November. Below, nine counties where the stakes are especially high and the contrast especially stark.