{"id":1463769,"date":"2025-12-10T03:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463769"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:14:38","slug":"bullard-joins-ices-287g-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463769","title":{"rendered":"Bullard joins ICE Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-10_033555-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1463771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-10_033555-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-10_033555.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>BULLARD \u2014 Bullard\u2019s City Council voted on Tuesday evening to join ICE\u2019s 287(g) Task Force program according to our new partner KETK. This comes after they voted last month to table the motion as the city attorney was not present at the meeting. The 287(g) Task Force Model is a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that allows local law enforcement to enforce U.S. immigration laws, including identifying and processing immigrants with pending or active criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Smith County Precinct 4 joined the Task Force Model Program while Precinct 1 declined to join the same program, as Constable Ralph Caraway said his office will continue to enforce the law and protect its community without expanding its responsibility for \u201ctargeting any person because of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, color or creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bullard has become the second city in Smith County to join the Task Force Model, following the Arp Police Department\u2019s addition on Nov. 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\/news\/top-stories\/is-your-east-texas-county-participating-in-ices-287g-program\/\">Check here for all East Texas agencies currently signed on to ICE\u2019s 287(g) program.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULLARD \u2014 Bullard\u2019s City Council voted on Tuesday evening to join ICE\u2019s 287(g) Task Force program according to our new partner KETK. This comes after they voted last month to table the motion as the city attorney was not present at the meeting. The 287(g) Task Force Model is a partnership with Immigration and Customs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bullard joins ICE Task Force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1464059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-10_033555-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 10:35:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-10_033555-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463769"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464384,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463769\/revisions\/1464384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}