West Virginia MetroNews – An immigration sweep that resulted in more than 600 arrests in West Virginia was built on collaboration with a growing number of local law enforcement agencies, which in recent months have been rewarded with hard-to-pass-up incentives to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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“We couldn’t have done it without the help of the state and locals,” Michael Rose, the acting field office director in the Philadelphia region for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said this past week on MetroNews Talkline.
ICE is giving in return: The agency late last year announced that an influx of federal cash meant it could offer valuable incentives like equipment, vehicles, overtime and bonuses for local law enforcement agencies signing cooperative agreements. Since then, the number of West Virginia agencies participating has ballooned.
