The deaths of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti have shaken up the conversation about how states should respond to immigration crackdowns across the country.
Some Democratic leaders have vowed to hold federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers accountable — even charging them with crimes.
However, after Trump took office last year, many red states jumped to support the president’s mass deportation efforts.
In Tennessee, the state provides grants to law enforcement agencies that work with ICE. Since that was passed last year, the number of sheriff’s offices and police departments that have signed a formal agreement with ICE has skyrocketed.
Now, Republican lawmakers in the state are considering making that voluntary program involuntary as part of a bigger immigration package. Kentucky lawmakers are moving in the same direction.


The article says “There is no structural or blanket barrier to states bringing a criminal prosecution against federal officials.”
This is good news. I was hoping there would be at least one example of it being used. Does anyone know if this idea has been tested via any cases in the past?
I wonder if the Institute for Justice will take up any of these cases on an individual level?