On May 27, Connecticut lawmakers approved changes to the state’s Trust Act, a law that controls how local officials interact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The legislation, originally passed in 2019, mostly banned police from holding people just because ICE asked, unless ICE had a judicial warrant or the person had committed serious crimes.

Now, with the new updates, the immigration law has been strengthened.

Specifically, the updated law has two key parts:

First, individuals will now be allowed to sue towns or cities if local police help ICE in ways that violate state law, and they could also get their legal fees covered if they win.

Secondly, local officials will now be allowed to hold people for ICE if they’ve been convicted of more crimes, such as sexual assau

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