GORHAM — Residents in the towns of Gorham and Carroll have submitted petition articles recommending their police departments withdraw from their current agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The two communities are among a dozen law enforcement agencies in New Hampshire that have entered into what are called 287 (g) agreements, named for a section of immigration law that gives local and state police the authority to perform immigration enforcement. Local officers are allowed to interrogate people suspected of being in the country illegally and arrest those accused of violating immigration laws.

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