States that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement push ICE onto the streets to search for subjects, fueling avoidable agitator unrest that is absent in places where local authorities have a working relationship with DHS, several states' officials told Fox News Digital.

Their comments follow a New York Times analysis showing that "at-large" ICE arrests — operations conducted in communities rather than jails — have surged most sharply in states that bar local authorities from honoring immigration detainers or working with federal agents.

The analysis pointed to California, Illinois and New York as the most common sites for at-large arrests, citing laws there blocking local authorities from cooperating or handing over prisoners to federal immigration enforcement.

The states with a 90%-or-more share of at-large arrests included Illinois, New York, Washington, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Alaska, according to the paper.

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"If Dems would just honor the detainers, ICE would pick up illegal aliens from jail, where they’re already in custody," Republican strategist Tim Murtaugh remarked on the findings.

"But because they don’t, ICE has to find the illegal aliens in the community after they’re released," he said. "ICE didn’t bring the chaos. The chaos is what brought ICE."

Prosecutors and lawmakers in states not mentioned in the analysis agreed; there is no smoke in their jurisdictions because there is no fire.

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"Law enforcement works best when it works together, focusing on the mission and not limited by what it says on our badges," Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman told Fox News Digital.

"As threats grow, zealous collaboration amongst federal, state and local law enforcement is necessary to keep American families safe."

Coleman said cooperation with ICE in Kentucky is helping keep the peace, and avoid the kinds of violent scenes seen in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

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The dynamic, he said, "could work in other states too."

And it has, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who said the Yellowhammer State proudly "stands united with ICE and all federal law enforcement partners."

"[We share a] mission to remove dangerous criminal aliens, child predators, and human traffickers from our streets," Marshall said, contrasting the lack of such unrest in Montgomery and Mobile versus Minneapolis.

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"You have to be truly sick and deranged to call yourself a leader while actively welcoming such predators into your cities and states. That will never happen in Alabama."

Virginia, however, may become the test case for what happens after a tidal shift in such policy, current and former officials there said.

Former Gov. Glenn Youngkin entered Virginia into a 287(g) agreement, which authorizes cooperation between state law enforcement and ICE to identify and transfer criminal illegal immigrants from custody. He was backed by GOP state officials, including former Attorney General Jason Miyares, who welcomed ICE into the Old Dominion and collaborated as often as possible.

Miyares said in a statement that Virginia’s "streets have become less safe with the stroke of a pen," after Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger reversed Youngkin's action this month after taking office.

"This is a disaster for the public safety of the Commonwealth. Mark my words, there will be Virginians who will be robbed, raped and murdered as a result of this anti-public safety executive order. No one should be surprised."

Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore agreed, telling Fox News Digital he can "absolutely" envision scenes of unrest at home in the future, now that DHS is no longer welcome.

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"With local law enforcement [cooperation], DHS can identify and just send a small team in," Kilgore said, adding that dynamic happened a lot under Youngkin when ICE was allowed to surgically pursue MS-13 gangsters due to cooperation from Richmond.

"I would encourage [Spanberger] to rethink this because it's making Virginians less safe – period."

Fox News Digital reached out to Spanberger for comment. Previously, she said that "state and local law enforcement should not be required to divert their limited resources to enforce federal civil immigration laws."

Leaders in states where chaos has erupted have defended their stance, with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison citing a "federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota [that] must stop."

California Attorney General Rob Bonta called ICE-involved unrest in Los Angeles part of a pattern of attacks on immigrant communities by President Donald Trump and said the immigration enforcement operations are "not about safety and justice" but "quotas" for DHS.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul previously referred to federal agents as "occupiers" who "often violently question residents" without warrants or probable cause.

FIRST ON FOX: House conservatives are reviving various pushes to impeach judges accused of blocking President Donald Trump's agenda after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., gave his tacit approval earlier this week.

"I just spoke to him on the House floor, and he's still in support, so we're going to push to move forward on at least one," Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital in the early evening on Thursday.

Ogles was among the conservative Trump allies who led the push to impeach judges last year as the administration engaged in legal battles with federal courts across the country over various rulings.

He previously introduced impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge John Bates for blocking a Trump executive order targeting transgender recognition under federal law, as well as District Judge Theodore Chuang after his ruling to stop a crackdown on foreign aid by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Neither of those impeachment resolutions or others targeting several other judges went anywhere at the time, however. House GOP leaders made clear they believed impeachment was an impractical way to deal with what Republicans saw as "activist judges" trying to influence policy rather than interpret law.

Johnson and other leaders instead favored a bill by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to limit district judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions. That bill passed the House along partisan lines last year but was never taken up in the Senate.

But the speaker sounded more enthusiastic about impeachment during his press conference on Wednesday, telling reporters, "I'm for it."

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He named U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, specifically, who's been targeted by Republicans after rulings on several key immigration cases involving Trump's policies, including flying migrants to El Salvador and other countries instead of detaining them in the U.S.

Boasberg more recently raised GOP ire when it was revealed that Boasberg signed off on decisions that allowed for the seizure of some Republican lawmakers' phone records in former special counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost probe.

A resolution to impeach Boasberg led by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, gained traction among conservatives last year, and the Texas Republican told Fox News Digital he was heartened by Johnson's comments on Thursday.

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"We're going to do everything we can to push that forward. I mean the reality is that Boasberg has been acting as an agent of the Democrat Party for quite some time now," Gill said. "I'm thrilled to see the speaker get on board. I think his leadership will be crucial in getting this passed."

Gill said it was still early to predict whether it would see a House-wide vote but said his office was in contact with Johnson's office about the measure, which he said was "moving in the right direction."

A source familiar with his effort told Fox News Digital that his resolution to impeach Boasberg gained two new House GOP co-sponsors after Johnson's comments this week.

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Other House Republicans who supported the push last year indicated they would do so again.

"I'd be all for it," Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital. He said of Boasberg specifically, "I think he's one of the most forthright judicial activists on the bench and that's not why he was put on the bench."

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said Johnson expressing support could strengthen the push.

"There's a lot of respect for Speaker Johnson, especially as a constitutional lawyer — he's someone that a lot of people have a lot of confidence in," Stutzman told Fox News Digital. "The fact that he's willing to step out there as a Speaker of the House, it says a lot."

Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital, "I think there's more of an appetite and less of a hesitation than there was earlier in the Congress. We had an agenda. We didn't want to be distracted with potential impeachment, but I think now, as we're realizing things are not getting better, the people around the nation are expecting us to hold this judge and others like him accountable."

But not all Republicans were as enthusiastic.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., who was supportive of the GOP's judicial impeachment fervor last year, told Fox News Digital Thursday that he was not sure it could survive the committee process needed before a House-wide vote.

House GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore, R-Utah, said "everybody has to be willing to consider impeachment" as a power of Congress but said he did not know the details of the specific initiatives.

"I will reinforce how much I like Issa's bill. It moves it away from political rhetoric into, 'Hey, let's do something substantive here,'" Moore told Fox News Digital. "It's a pretty innovative solution in a very sound way."