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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The Village of Palmyras Police Department will now help the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) with immigration investigations. The department applied for a Task Force Model. It’s the first police department in the state to apply for that designation.

The task force model under Section 287(g) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act has been discontinued previously, but under the second Trump administration, it’s made a return.

“Basically deputizes state or local law enforcement to act as ICE officers,” said Jacob Hamburger, an assistant professor of law with Marquette University Law School.

It allows local law enforcement officers to interrogate and even arrest individuals they believe may be breaking immigration poli

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