As the federal takeover of D.C.’s police force is scheduled to end at midnight, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a swift return to local control — and a decisive break from immigration enforcement efforts that marked the 30-day “crime emergency” declared by President Donald Trump.

That means one major change: The police department will stop working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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“Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does,” Bowser said Wednesday morning. “And with the end of the emergency, it w

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