As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for ...

Voters in Lewiston, Maine, here pictured in 2022, will decide a competitive state House seat critical to control of the state government this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Democrats hold the ...

There are roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. Also: read our preliminary overview of these elections, published in January ...

The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and other scenes of violence by ICE and Border Patrol agents this month are startling reminders of the turmoil that Trump’s immigration dragnet ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for district attorney and sheriff by the state’s filing deadline for major party candidates. (This list was published as of January 2026; unaffiliated ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

Do you have a question about how local and state governments can, and are, responding to ICE? Let us know this week, and we will do our best to answer. An hour north of D.C., a Maryland county that ...

Karen Edwards had never spoken to lawmakers before last year. But this past June, she summoned the nerve to testify before them about her experiences with domestic violence. She spoke to them via ...