The Trump administration is considering ways to restart a program to deputize state and local law enforcement officials to place suspected undocumented immigrants under arrest.

The Obama administration terminated the program after claims were made that the arrests led to incidents of racial profiling, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Russell Hott told the National Sheriffs’ Association at a recent conference that the “task force model,” as the program is called, could be restarted, reports The Washington Post Wednesday.

The program allows ICE to pick out certain state and local officials who would be allowed to question and arrest immigrants they encounter during patrols.

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