My main focus has been on white supremacists and brownshirt paramilitaries because they are the greatest threat to the physical safety of immigrants and anyone who is standing up to the trump regime.
I believe I just figured out their gameplan on how to create a paramilitary millions strong across the United States.
Let me say that again. This is the regime’s gameplan on how to create a paramilitary in order to enact violence against their political enemies, detain millions of immigrants, and detain US citizen dissidents.
What is 287(g)
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 added Section 287(g) to the Immigration and Nationality Act. This section authorizes ICE to give state and local law enforcement officers the authority to carry out certain immigration enforcement duties. Essentially, 287(g) agreements turn state and local police into arms of ICE, and divert the time and attention of local officers towards enforcing federal immigration law. Critically, law enforcement agencies can only participate in a 287(g) if the agreement doesn’t conflict with state or local laws. https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/what-are-287g-agreements-and-how-do-they-fuel-trumps-mass-deportations
Since January 20, the Trump administration has aggressively — yet quietly — expanded a controversial program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies across the country that are normally prohibited from investigating and arresting non-citizens based on immigration violations. https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/287g-the-program-that-lets-state-and-local-police-perform-the-functions-of-federal-immigration-officers/
"In the span of about two months, the Trump administration radically expanded the 287(g) program beyond anything I have seen in the past 15 years of close study of this precise policy," writes immigration scholar Austin Kocher.
Ignore the Outrage
The regime and trump says a lot of outrageous things that make big headlines. He’s renaming veterans day. He wants to re-open Alcatraz. Ignore that. Those are distractions. It’s the things he’s doing in the quiet, in the dark that need to concern you.
This is all part of their strategy. Not everyone in the regime is stupid or incompetent. They want to give the perception of incompetence because that lets them do their damage in silence. This group of incompetent people have managed to put their puppet in power, have gained control of the house, the senate, and the majority in the Supreme Court. They have convinced ~25% of Americans to live in a completely separate reality bubble.
Don’t get distracted by the latest outrage. This is intentional. They are distracting you.
ICE is quietly creating agreements with local law enforcement and especially sheriffs. This has largely gone unreported and I’ve not seen anyone connect the dots yet.
Most 287(g) agreements were with county sheriffs, rather than other enforcement agencies, for two reasons. First, sheriffs are elected, which means that they had a political incentive to incorporate immigration enforcement into their campaign platforms by publicly pursuing 287(g) agreements.7 Second, sheriffs run the county jails where all law enforcement agencies in the county book people they arrest; thus, jails function as a strategic node for ICE in the larger enforcement system. https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/287g-the-program-that-lets-state-and-local-police-perform-the-functions-of-federal-immigration-officers/
Constitutional Sheriffs
Did you know there’s been a growing movement called “constitutional sheriffs” that started in 2011?
What is the “Constitutional Sheriffs” movement?
The “constitutional sheriffs” movement contends that “[t]he law enforcement powers held by the sheriff supersede those of any agent, officer, elected official or employee from any level of government when in the jurisdiction of the county.”1 Self-proclaimed “constitutional sheriffs” claim to derive this supreme authority from historical practice as well as the oath they swear to the Constitution (even though an oath pledging to uphold the Constitution is standard for many public officials and government employees). Thus, “constitutional sheriffs” assert that they have the power to determine the constitutionality of the laws they are entrusted with enforcing, and to refuse to enforce any law that they believe is unconstitutional. Although only a small fraction of the nation’s sheriffs is part of the movement, in recent years, “constitutional sheriffs” have refused to enforce a host of public safety laws, from COVID-19-related mask mandates to state and federal gun laws and have affirmatively sought to frustrate federal land management and other government programs.2
Over the past several years, the movement has turned to promoting unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen. Following the 2020 election, the Texas-based organization True the Vote, which advanced disproven claims of significant election fraud, launched a partnership with coalitions of constitutional sheriffs to investigate supposed election irregularities—a role far outside the traditional scope of most county sheriffs’ duties.3
https://statesunited.org/resources/factsheet-constitutional-sheriff/
More simply, these are MAGA sheriffs. And the alarming fact is that sheriffs in the United States hold a scary amount of power and autonomy.
A new report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign - that's a research organization - analyzed data on elected sheriffs around the country. And a report concluded that they have, "unparalleled autonomy and tremendous power," in the communities they police with very little accountability. Their findings are published in a new report called Confronting The Demographics Of Power: America's Sheriffs. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/25/895423249/do-elected-sheriffs-have-outsized-power-in-the-u-s
In the context of the COVID pandemic and increased calls for accountability in the criminal system, the Reflective Democracy Campaign tapped our data to craft a demographic profile of American sheriffs, who manage county jails and a wide range of law enforcement activities, yet operate with less oversight than local police chiefs or commissioners.
The nation’s 3,000 county sheriffs are elected officials; they run for office in 46 states, often in unopposed elections. Sheriff demographics are gravely unbalanced:
92% are white
90% are white men
Just 5% are African American
And 2% of sheriffs are women
Sheriffs hold a host of powers, from overseeing jails, transporting prisoners and pre-trial detainees, and acting as coroners in addition to all of the normal powers associated with law enforcement officers like investigating, making arrests, serving warrants, etc.
“Despite their broad duties, sheriffs and their deputies aren’t always trained in law enforcement. Elected sheriffs may have backgrounds in business or real estate instead. Patronage can run strong in sheriffs’ departments, with some deputies hired as political favors.” https://theappeal.org/the-power-of-sheriffs-an-explainer/
A staggering 60% of sheriffs run unopposed. There’s a reason that thrillers like Jack Reacher often have a corrupt sheriff as an antagonist. Because the system is ripe for abuse and has been abused throughout the history of the United States. It is an incredible amount of power given to an elected official that has very little oversight or accountability. Of course it’s going to be abused.
It’s hard to find specific data but in many states sheriff deputies are not required by law to have any formal training, like attending the police academy before they’re given a badge, a gun, and are allowed to carry out law enforcement duties. “Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler apologized to members of a state board that enforces law enforcement training standards for allowing two of his appointees to participate in an armed raid without proper certification, saying he didn't know they weren't qualified.” https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2025/02/18/knox-county-sheriff-spangler-apologizes-uncertified-appointees-armed-raids-jerry-glenn-eric-edlin/78620397007/
Here’s an article from Slate, In Arkansas and Indiana, you can become a police officer without any formal training.
In the afternoon of Sept. 8, 2012, a white police officer in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, shot and killed a 30-year-old black man named Carleton Wallace. The officer, Nancy Cummings, told investigators she had detained Wallace after noticing a pistol tucked in his waistband, which he threw into a wooded area upon seeing her. According to Cummings’ account, it was while she was patting Wallace down that her service weapon accidentally discharged and struck him in the back. Wallace was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Cummings, who was placed on administrative leave from the department and charged with manslaughter in connection with the incident, had joined the Alexander police force about eight months earlier. But as Alexander’s then-police chief admitted in an interview the week after Wallace’s death, Cummings had not yet received any training or certification from the state. She was not scheduled to attend the police academy until the following year. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/05/police-training-in-arkansas-and-indiana-you-can-become-a-cop-without-any-formal-training.html
Sheriff’s Posse’s Aren’t Just Wild West Trope, They Are a Reality in 2025
In rural Klickitat County, Sheriff Bob Songer — who has drawn national attention for his belief that sheriffs have the constitutional authority to decide which laws they will enforce — has been building a posse of volunteers nearly 10 times larger than the number of deputies, InvestigateWest’s Paul Kiefer reported. The posse is accountable to Songer alone, and he has warned that if the federal or state government tried to confiscate civilian firearms, he would use the posse to fight back. The posse has drawn concerns from residents worried about Songer’s association with far-right movements, as well as the potential liability to the county in the event of a violent encounter between a posse member and a citizen. https://www.investigatewest.org/news/a-controversial-sheriffs-posse-an-uninvestigated-disappearance-and-a-wealth-of-obstacles-to-public-records-a-year-of-investigative-report-17757349
Songer is a central figure in the “constitutional sheriffs” movement, founded on the theory that county sheriffs have the authority to decide which state or federal laws they can enforce. He cemented his place in that movement — drawing national attention in the process — by publicly refusing to enforce gun control laws and pandemic-era public health rules. If federal or state authorities attempted to confiscate civilian firearms on his turf, Songer has warned that he would call upon the posse to help him fight back — a hypothetical showdown he once compared to the Bundy family standoffs in Nevada and Oregon a decade ago.
“I would call upon the citizens of the county, not just the posse, and I would deputize them,” he told InvestigateWest. “We would resist if they come in and take guns away from good citizens.” https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2024/10/20/sheriff-in-washington-state-has-growing-volunteer-posse-at-command/75724149007/
Elsewhere, sheriffs have occasionally used posses for explicitly political purposes. In Culpeper County, Virginia, federal prosecutors indicted a constitutional sheriff for allegedly accepting $70,000 in campaign contributions between 2019 and 2023 in exchange for making donors part of his volunteer auxiliary and providing access to firearms. In Arizona, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s so-called “Cold Case Posse” attracted attention in 2011 when its members began investigating the validity of then-President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Arpaio’s successor disbanded that posse in 2017.
Another branch of Maricopa County’s posse — which once boasted as many as 3,000 members — took part in Arpaio’s trademark hunt for undocumented immigrants, including participating in traffic stops, worksite raids and crowd control operations. Those posse activities factored into a costly racial discrimination lawsuit in 2012 that played a key role in transforming Arizona into a battleground state.
The most obvious opportunity for the posse to act as enforcers for Songer’s political beliefs came during two Black Lives Matter protests in Klickitat County in 2020 — one in White Salmon, and another in nearby Lyle. Songer routinely refers to the Black Lives Matter movement as a source of “domestic terrorism,” and he told InvestigateWest that he deployed armed posse members to “keep an eye” on the protests and intervene in the event of rioting.
Indeed, Washington law provides practically no framework for volunteer sheriff’s posses. State statutes allow sheriffs to call upon civilians to help respond to riots, search for fugitives or serve civil court documents, but leave the details to the sheriffs themselves.
“It’s a blank check,” said state Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, chair of Washington’s House Public Safety Committee. https://www.investigatewest.org/investigatewest-reports/in-a-rural-stretch-of-washington-a-constitutional-sheriff-and-his-growing-volunteer-posse-provoke-controversy-17706597
Sheriff’s Have Broad Powers to Deputize ANYONE
The laws vary from state to state but sheriff’s have broad powers to deputize.
In general, a sheriff’s power to summon members of the public to aid in law enforcement as a “posse comitatus” may be authorized under state law or as a residual power under common law.11 Depending on state law, posse members or deputized private citizens may assist the sheriff with tasks ranging from service of process to security at county events, hostage situations and wildfires, and/or pursuing fugitives. Some states limit the role of posse members or deputized private citizens to particular functions (e.g., serving process or executing warrants).12 States have also imposed procedural restrictions, requiring appointments to be made in writing and/or recorded in a register showing the terms and circumstances of such appointment.13 Although some states require training for members of organized citizen posses, others allow sheriffs to call upon citizens on a more ad hoc basis to provide backup during situations involving combative suspects, felony stops, in-progress crimes, or search and rescue.14 In some states, members of a sheriff’s volunteer posse may be authorized to carry firearms.15
https://statesunited.org/resources/factsheet-constitutional-sheriff/
So imagine this hypothetical scenario. The trump regime has stated that they want to detain 12 million “illegal immigrants.” Currently ICE only has 50,000 officers. They simply don’t have the manpower to carry out their stated goal.
There’s no way they can hire on the hundreds of thousands of officers they’d need to accomplish their goal to ICE. Federal law enforcement have strict hiring standards and the pipeline to go from application to boots on the ground working for ICE is two to three years.
They need a different scheme and to leverage infrastructure and laws that are already in place. This regime is great at finding obscure laws to legitimize their otherwise illegal and unconstitutional schemes, like using the Alien Enemies act to deport immigrants without due process. This scheme using 287(g) to bring local law enforcement and especially sheriffs departments under the control of ICE is devious and it is legal.
These constitutional sheriffs can then use their existing posses, and create new posses and deputize random civilians. Everyone in this chain of command has legal law enforcement authority because they’ve been deputized by the sheriffs. And everyone has legal authority to enforce immigration law because they’ve been deputized by ICE under 287(g). They will have the legal authority to “enforce immigration policy,” aka detain people with too much melanin in their skin.
This Isn’t Fearmongering, Mercenary Contractor Blackwater was Deputized in Katrina
About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces "join[ing] the hurricane relief effort." But its men on the ground told a different story.
In an hourlong conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as "securing neighborhoods" and "confronting criminals." They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to their legs. Their flak jackets were covered with pouches for extra ammunition.
When asked what authority they were operating under, one guy said, "We're on contract with the Department of Homeland Security." Then, pointing to one of his comrades, he said, "He was even deputized by the governor of the state of Louisiana. We can make arrests and use lethal force if we deem it necessary." The man then held up the gold Louisiana law enforcement badge he wore around his neck. Blackwater spokesperson Anne Duke also said the company has a letter from Louisiana officials authorizing its forces to carry loaded weapons.
Blackwater is not alone. As business leaders and government officials talk openly of changing the demographics of what was one of the most culturally vibrant of America's cities, mercenaries from companies like DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut and an Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI) are fanning out to guard private businesses and homes, as well as government projects and institutions. Within two weeks of the hurricane, the number of private security companies registered in Louisiana jumped from 185 to 235. Some, like Blackwater, are under federal contract. Others have been hired by the wealthy elite, like F. Patrick Quinn III, who brought in private security to guard his $3 million private estate and his luxury hotels, which are under consideration for a lucrative federal contract to house FEMA workers.
A possibly deadly incident involving Quinn's hired guns underscores the dangers of private forces policing American streets. On his second night in New Orleans, Quinn's security chief, Michael Montgomery, who said he worked for an Alabama company called Bodyguard and Tactical Security (BATS), was with a heavily armed security detail en route to pick up one of Quinn's associates and escort him through the chaotic city. Montgomery told me they came under fire from "black gangbangers" on an overpass near the poor Ninth Ward neighborhood. "At the time, I was on the phone with my business partner," he recalls. "I dropped the phone and returned fire."
Montgomery says he and his men were armed with AR-15s and Glocks and that they unleashed a barrage of bullets in the general direction of the alleged shooters on the overpass. "After that, all I heard was moaning and screaming, and the shooting stopped. That was it. Enough said." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blackwater-down/
This is trump’s Paramilitary Brownshirt Army
Del Norte Sheriff Garrett Scott has announced Merced County Sheriff's Posse will be participating and leading the parade on the Inauguration on President Donald J. Trump.
Merced County Sheriff Vern Wernke released this amazing news and acknowledged Sheriff Scott and the Del Norte County Sheriff's Posse will be helping with financial donations. Merced County Sheriff's Posse is setting up its mounted posse unit, expediently. Funds are sought for horse feed and shelter for the Merced team.
This is not the first Rodeo for the Merced Posse. The Posse participated in President Trumps first Inauguration in 2017 and were in fact the only representatives from the Golden State for this historical event. https://www.triplicate.com/news/merced-county-sheriffs-posse-to-lead-the-inauguration-of-president-elect-trump/article_4b905186-c932-11ef-b87f-07bb639787c8.html
That’s right. A sheriff’s posse lead the parade for the trump inauguration. I would bet my life savings that most people reading this article have never heard the word sheriff posse and trump in the same sentence. I bet most of you didn’t know that sheriff posse’s were still a thing in 2025. I certainly didn’t until I started doing this research.
Remember, it’s the silent pieces that should alarm you.
The trump’s regime is clearly aware of the existence of these posse’s. They had them lead their little inauguration parade.
Connecting the Dots
287(g) creates a command and control structure that allows ICE to oversee all of these disparate local law enforcement agencies. It centralizes the power of local law enforcement agencies in the federal government. Centralizing the power of local law enforcement behind the federal government, something these constitutional sheriffs and other anti-government, anti-fed libertarian types have been warning against for decades.
The group, known as CSPOA, teaches that elected sheriffs must “protect their citizens from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government” by refusing to enforce any law they deem unconstitutional or “unjust.” https://apnews.com/article/constitutional-sheriffs-5568cd0b6b27680a28de8a098ed14210
Turns out that the virulent racism that runs through the veins of these sheriffs win out over their fear of federal government overreach. Turns out that it was never about protecting the constitution. Turns out that their issue with the federal government all along was with the person in charge(a black man named Barack Obama). This entire movement sprung up under the Obama presidency and has now been given legitimacy under trump.
The Blueprint for the Brownshirt Paramilitary
287(g) allows the trump regime to control and give broad immigration enforcement powers to local law enforcement agencies
287(g) gives the federal government streamlined communications and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies. It creates a chain of command, in other words it creates a command and control structure for the federal government to direct the actions of local LEOs.
“Constitutional Sheriffs” have already established posses who have already participated in intimidating Black Lives Matter protestors and performed armed “immigration enforcement” patrols along the southern border.
Sheriffs have the broad power to deputize anyone they want, giving legal authority to carry firearms and perform law enforcement duties including the use of deadly force.
These posses have already carried out immigration enforcement activities in Arizona. “Another branch of Maricopa County’s posse — which once boasted as many as 3,000 members — took part in Arpaio’s trademark hunt for undocumented immigrants, including participating in traffic stops, worksite raids and crowd control operations.”
Deputizing armed, non-LEO citizens and giving them the authority to use deadly force is not unprecedented. The federal government deputized Blackwater, a private military mercenary group during hurricane Katrina and gave them broad powers to carry weapons and use deadly force. Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has submitted a $25 billion proposal to create a “private Army” to round up “illegal immigrants.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208
Sheriffs will gather posses, deputize civilians and grant broad legal powers. This is my own speculation but I believe they will likely tap white supremacy militias and the like for their posses. This will form the backbone of the new brownshirt paramilitary army.
Mercenary contractor groups will be deputized under this scheme to give more teeth to the organizations. Many of these mercenary contractors are former US military and special operations.
I believe we are already seeing this in action. The videos showing completely untrained, unfit, ununiformed, masked men who fail to identify themselves is an indicator that this is already happening. My speculation is that ICE is using contractors, like G4S, and sending out one real agent to lead a gang of these contractors on raids. The contractors are the hired muscle and the real federal agent brings legitimacy and command and control.
This will be their model across the US. Their posse and deputized white supremacists will be the muscle, lead by actual trained law enforcement. They will be used to enact violence against the regime’s political enemies and carry out their brutal detention of millions of immigrants. And if you think it only stops at “illegal immigrants” you are ignoring the history of every damn authoritarian regime.
Mercenary contractors, like Blackwater(now Constellis Holdings), will perform more specialized raids on the homes of politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and activists. They will be used to kidnap and disappear prominent leaders in the resistance against the regime. Of course these folks will have trumped up charges of aiding and abetting terrorists and whatever else laid upon them to give the veneer of legality.
And folks this will all be perfectly legal under our current laws.
Scroll to the bottom on this page to download a list of current 287(g) participants and see if your local law enforcement are participating. Put pressure on your local government to not sign 287(g), or to cancel their 287(g) agreements. https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g
Also thank you for your work on this - it’s been hard to share this news with friends because they think I’m being a conspiracy theorist.
I’m scared to even drive in Texas now. I’m a citizen but definitely brown with tattoos.