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2025-09-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Alabama conducts first state-federal checkpoint operations with ICE, detaining over only 20 people
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[FoxNews] Gov. Kay Ivey directs state agencies to work with federal immigration enforcement in novel collaboration
In what is reportedly one of the first instances of "checkpoint" operations between the Department of Homeland Security and a state police agency, more than two dozen people were detained within the past several days.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey confirmed to Fox News Digital that she directed the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and other cabinet agencies to "work closely with ICE to catch criminal illegals."
Ivey praised ALEA’s work on a particularly lucrative "bust" in Russellville, which saw at least 20 people detained.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, ALEA confirmed that operation in which agency troopers conducted drivers' license checkpoints in Franklin and Colbert counties, where ICE special agents were present.
More than one-third of area residents identify as Hispanic, according to census figures, which eclipses the statewide proportion of 6%.
ALEA directed Fox News Digital to ICE for immigration-specific data from its collaboration.
"Driver license checkpoints occur all over the state and are one of the ways we stop criminals in their tracks, and now, we include ICE agents in these efforts," Ivey said.
The Republican, who is term-limited next year, added that criminal illegal immigrants are not welcome in her state, and that every "tool in the toolbox" will be used to keep residents and visitors safe.
Throughout the summer, ICE also made two dozen arrests in Baldwin County, home of the famed white-sand "Redneck Riviera" beach towns.
Arrests were made at sites in Loxley – along Interstate 10 north of Orange Beach – and Spanish Fort, which lies on the other end of the George Wallace Tunnel from Mobile.
The operations led one immigration advocate in that region to suggest immigrants write phone numbers on their bodies to be able to contact family in case they are detained by ICE, according to AL.com.
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