Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers

A STOP report highlights how DHS-run fusion centers enable data sharing between federal immigration authorities and sanctuary-city law enforcement, providing ICE access to photos, license plate location data, and various local records, despite longstanding questions about the centers’ counterterrorism value. The piece situates these findings amid promises of expanded immigration crackdowns, noting the opacity and profitability of such cooperation and the potential for broad, chilling applications of aggregated data.