It's not "if they have more force" but in a practical sense, its actually risky, and cops are incredibly wimpy
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Local and state police are outnumbered by ICE + Border Patrol, and a fair fraction of them are on the side of ICE as well.

Being a greedy Nazi doesn’t make you insane. It just means you're evil.
Its like promising to rob an abandoned bank by threatening to kick yourself in the testicles unless bystanders break open the vault and hand you the cash that hasn't been there in a decade.
The decision to not have people shooting at ICE is a very intentional one, not driven by a lack of guns, but by an estimate of what is most likely to succeed
Please thank them. Positive reinforcement is a thing
Trump doesn't only value money — he values raping kids too
Well yeah, Republicans don't think that they're subject to the jurisdiction of the United States
Yeah, it takes something like the California data brokers opt out to do that.
Or actively poisoning their data sets at scale
ICE regularly uses fake license plates. You can do a bit, in that they dont swap constantly, but its not going to be as good as the tracking of private citizens
Make sure you tell them. Positive reinforcement helps