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A recent uptick in immigration-related arrests in Teton Valley, Idaho, has raised questions about how East Idaho law enforcement works with federal agents.

Evan Robinson-Johnson from KHOL and Jeanette Boner from the Jackson Hole News and Guide found that while local law enforcement has no formal agreement with ICE, tactics tell a different story.

We pick up the conversation with how the reporters started asking questions.

And then again, over the weekend, separate just kind of citizen report that they were seeing essentially ICE officers appearing to work with local law enforcement.

Jeanette, where do you first pick up the story?

A little nugget that I had never seen before in Teton Valley was a post from a local business that they had canceled a Latin music event.

I gave the owner a call who he willingly talked about his frustration around the fear in the community, not wanting to put community members at risk.

So the other piece that we got, which was kind of surprising, was a little bit more of a narrative from local law enforcement.

It didn't come directly from the sheriff in Teton County.

But it came through the county administrator and it spelled out, you know, pretty clearly, yes, they don't have a formal agreement.

But also there were these touch points.

And I live in eastern Idaho.

In Teton Valley, and we're in a bit of a fashion desert where there's a lot of good fashion.

But when I think about workhorse pieces that I can have for 10 years or more, that maybe in a past life I'd buy at a nice upscale clothing store.

I didn't have that here.

I'm joined today with Bryce Swager founder and CEO of Swagger builds.

He is located in the Teton Valley.

Very beautiful area, very beautiful houses.

And Bryce, Man, I'm glad to have you on here because you're the kind of guy who's a forward-pushing home builder.

On TOS Plus, it's on you as the homeowner.

Totally.

you build in your service area and you reached a client in california a lot of people wonder they say hey i live here and there's a lot of people moving into my area but they're like should i spend facebook ads to reach people in california well no you don't want to spray and pray and reach a bunch of people who may want to build but not in the Teton Valley, right? So you would then only use retargeting ads to reach people in California.

As an example, she fills out your thing on Chachapiti, she goes to your website, boom, now she's receiving your ads even though she's in California.

Andrew Rossi at Cowboy State Daily Great newspaper out west has this one, and the Cody Enterprise covered the search.

Sue is a 15-year-old Palomino gelding from Idaho's Teton Valley.

Yes, a boy horse named Sue.

Could get famous that way.

One person was reportedly deported after a similar stop in mid-August.

Teton Valley News described that arrest as part of a pattern of stops during the summer.

Earlier in the weekend, Victor held its first VictorFest event to celebrate the grand opening of a new skate park and progress on affordable housing.

Mayor Sue Moncaster was hopeful the fall festivities, which were nearly thwarted by a late afternoon storm, would help repair trust.

About 500 attended, though Moncaster said that included almost nobody from the Latino community, which she attributed to the reported ICE arrests earlier in the day.

The event coincided with the first signups for the neighboring deed-restricted homes in Sherman Park.

The first tenants for the largest such affordable project in Teton Valley are expected to move in as early as January.

For KHOL News, I'm Evan Robinson-Johnson.