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DetroitLegalBeagle

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3. Not a lot due to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 10:13 AM
Aug 2025

Governors have full control of their National Guards, unless they are federalized, at which point they are controlled by the Feds. This cannot be blocked.

For ICE, states can forbid state and local personnel from enforcing federal law. The Feds cannot take control of state or local police forces. States cannot regulate how federal forces carry out their official duties, but they can charge individual federal officers for crimes committed outside of their official duties. So for example, state or local rules banning ICE from wearing masks during their operations will be ignored and not enforceable. But if an ICE agent gets pulled over driving drunk before or after an operation they can absolutely get charged with a DUI.

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