Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

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    On the one hand, states do need a kick in the ass to remind them that arresting federal agents for wrongdoing is in fact a good thing. On the other, cops are pretty bad at policing their own internally, let alone other units. Even if they’re competent in their attempts to maintain a presence, it will be a massive drain on local resources. I feel like any police presence will need to come with full support of a states attorney general to recoup money spent from fed.

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      There are a lot of people out there that aren’t current LEO that would love a job where they could investigate and arrest federal agents that have broken the law. Just have them direct the braindead badges

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        Coupled with the local resources drain is the legal drain when ICE’s budget is used to fight every single charge and impose maximum delay of justice. That much money can inflict a lot of damage on judge’s time, the local attorney’s time, and result in temporary rulings that have a silencing effect. They cannot hire enough people to spend all the money they received, so they’re draining it via corruption, contracts they don’t need, bribing local police units, and legal representation.