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DPS: Smuggler, 2 migrants dead in Brownsville crash in 4 vehicle crash
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Q&A: Who's policing Texas' local immigration enforcement program?
Sofia Morales
Sofia Morales
Reporter · Austin, TX
Sofia Morales specializes in covering tech policy and its implications for the community. A graduate of UT Austin with a focus on Political Science, she has experience writing for local government publications and tech advocacy groups for 6 years.
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On this edition of "Inside the Investigation" – an extended discussion first featured in the latest episode of our weekly investigative program, "Cause Effect" – KXAN's Grace Reader and Arezow Doost examine how local Texas police are taking on federal immigration enforcement duties through ICE's rapidly expanding 287(g) program – and who is enforcing the state rules requiring some agencies to join that partnership.
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