A Texas town tore apart as police officer helped ICE deport neighbors
In tiny Ingram, Officer Jaron Alexander’s traffic stops under a federal partnership delivered the equivalent of 10 percent of the town to immigration agents within a year.
In the small Texas Hill Country town of Ingram, population 1,900 and 45 percent Latino, police officer Jaron Alexander used a federal partnership program to hand over at least 70 undocumented residents to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement within three months last year, including a pregnant woman’s husband and the father of a newborn. The story, reported by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, offers a rare window into how the Trump administration’s deportation campaign is being carried out by local law enforcement.