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Committee hears testimony on SB 62, which would allow local agencies to participate in federal 287(g) immigration programs
Summary
SB 62 would prohibit New Hampshire state or local entities from preventing law enforcement agencies from applying for federal 287(g) agreements; testimony ranged from witnesses citing ICE enforcement data to civil‑liberties groups warning the bill could read as a mandate and raise fiscal and oversight concerns.
Sen. Bill Gannon introduced Senate Bill 62 as a measure to ensure state and local agencies in New Hampshire “shall not prohibit or impede any State, county, or local law enforcement agency from applying for or entering into an agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to participate in a federal 287 program,” as he read in the bill’s summary to the Judiciary Committee.
The 287(g) program, created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, permits ICE to enter memoranda of agreement with local law enforcement to delegate certain immigration‑enforcement authorities to trained local officers. Supporters argued the program adds tools to track and detain criminal noncitizens; opponents said the bill is unnecessary, could be read as a mandate that overrides local oversight, and raises…
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