Two police departments in Maine and Michigan this week ended contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over staffing shortages, according to local media.

Newsweek reached out to ICE and the police departments for comment.

Why It Matters

The announcements by police in Wells, Maine, and Genesee County, Michigan, come as immigration remains a political flashpoint nationwide. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has more than 1,000 agreements with local law enforcement units across the country amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportations, but the contracts have come under scrutiny, including from advocates of immigrant rights.

Conservatives view ICE as carrying out important immigration enforcement aimed at the removal of undocumented immigrants, especi

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