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Blue states like Illinois or California have zero.

The agreements come in different forms, but Dia said that one was particularly common.

To encourage cooperation, financial incentives are offered to local law enforcement.

Dia said that according to some officials, enforcement agreements were less common under previous administrations.

One official, who worked under Clinton, said she couldn't recall it being used.

The program expanded under President Bush after 9-11, and President Obama, who deported more people than any of his predecessors, also employed the practice.

But in 2012, 287G practices were suspended after a number of documented civil rights abuses.

NPR reports that the program was basically left intact, but not really used under President Biden.

Now, ICE says there are agreements active in 40 states and territories.

Meanwhile, those who oppose this kind of local-federal cooperation warn that in addition to draining local resources, these agreements risk racial profiling and civil rights violations, as well as making local police navigate complicated immigration laws.

As the Winter Olympics enters its final stretch, some media and political attention is turning to the Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028.

That's because the Hollywood mogul leading the planning and execution of the event is facing pressure to step aside because of the latest batch of Epstein files.

Casey Wasserman is the chair of LA28, the nonprofit organizing committee for the upcoming Summer Games.

Here he is back in 2024 speaking to NBC about the job he was taking on as the Paris Games wrapped up.

But his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, the infamous associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is now under scrutiny following new revelations.

While the board of L.A.

28 has given him full confidence, he's lost the support of the L.A.

mayor, Karen Bass.

She doesn't have the authority to fire him, but she's become the most senior public official yet to call for his resignation in a CNN interview this week.

The documents revealed that in 2003, Wasserman traveled to Africa on a humanitarian mission with Maxwell, along with former President Bill Clinton.