A Stockton police sergeant and eight officers wearing face shields and carrying batons helped escort vehicles from the city’s ICE facility Thursday night.

It’s part of a new state law that will force counties that run or contract out operations of a jail to participate in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program called 287 (g), named for a section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. But right now, only about a third of Texas counties are signed on.

There's a new border czar in town, and he has "zero tolerance" for attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

ICE agents have been masking identities during immigration arrests due to safety concerns, with border czar Tom Homan pointing to attacks on detention centers and border facilities.

Trump and his top immigration aides have repeatedly said they are focusing on deporting "the worst of the worst" — people with violent criminal convictions. But the cases on Long Island underscore a national trend: Authorities are sweeping up many immigrants without prior criminal records or with misdemeanor offenses.

Trump signed the nearly 900-page bill into law on July 4, opening the door for ICE to hire 10,000 new officers and double its capacity to detain illegal immigrants.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 10,000 employees over five years, echoing a Border Patrol expansion in the 2000s.

A Vermont green card holder detained by ICE at the Canadian border will soon walk free after she was granted bond Thursday morning.