Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signs executive order directing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed an executive order Tuesday directing all law enforcement agencies in Indiana to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Braun said the state will fully support the President Donald Trump administration's policies.

In addition to supporting ICE officers, Braun directed law enforcement statewide to report evidence that could help the agency. Specifically, credible information about people in the country illegally who have a criminal history, are suspected of a crime, or present a national security or public safety threat.

"Indiana is going to be a state that is going to help get people that came in here illegally and then committed crimes and are dangerous back out of the country," Braun said.

Members of the Indiana National Guard have been deployed at the Southern Border for many months. Braun said that will continue as long as additional help is needed there.

In the first week of his presidency, Trump signed a series of executive orders to crack down on immigration. That includes reviving some priorities from his first administration rolled back from former President Joe Biden's administration.

One executive order signed last week would eliminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States, that would upend more than a century of precedent. But a federal judge blocked the order after 22 states quickly mounted a legal challenge.

Officers enforcing immigration laws are now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration last week threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.

The move reversed guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigration agencies from carrying out immigration enforcement in sensitive locations. Those included churches, schools, day care centers, hospitals and other locations.

Immigration advocates have said migrants in the country illegally might not go to the hospital in an emergency or take their kids to school if they're fearful of deportation.

The Trump administration's deportation efforts and new rules making it easier to remove people have brought a spike in worry among immigrant communities and advocates amid a show of force on immigration

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