At least we are in agreement that there are serious enforcement actions that local police could pursue against ICE.

No, we're not. Any "serious" enforcement actions that local police could pursue against ICE would be blocked by the Supremacy Clause.

States are simply not allowed to use their police power to interfere with or impede federal agencies pursuing their federal objectives. The Supremacy Clause prevents that. It doesn't matter if the state is using general, near-universal rules like building codes or driver's licenses or prohibitions against trespass or having to get a building permit or even having a license plate. The moment those rules run up against what the federal government is trying to do in implementing a federal program or objective, the rules give way.

As I noted downthread, the irony is that states are only allowed to ask the federal government to follow state law when doing so won't get in the way of what they're doing.

There's nothing they can do, PhoolishPhilip. State power cannot be used to block federal power. States have the ability to go to court to stop ICE from doing stuff that's outside the scope of their authority or that violate federal laws. But they can't use their own laws to restrain the exercise of federal power.

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