Task Force Signed May 17, 2026 View agreement →
- Signed by Gaines County Sheriff's Office: JOE VEST
- Agreement signed
- July 31, 2025
- Residential population
- 13,347FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 18FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 26FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 44FBI 2025
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
Special election for sheriff on November 3, 2026.
Joe Vest
Republican unopposed signed the 287(g) agreement
Candidates: Gaines County, Nov. 3, 2026 General Election sample ballot, Precinct 2 (Sheriff, Unexpired Term) · archived copy
How Gaines County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 91.0%
- 5,840
- Harris
- 8.4%
- 538
- Others
- 0.6%
- 38
Trump won the county by 82.6 points over Harris. 6,416 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · Tex. Const. art. V, § 23 (four-year terms, elected in presidential years; art. XVI, § 65's staggering schedule was repealed in 1999)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Gaines County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
View agreement →Agreements on file
2 of 2 models on file
MOAs are not available for every agreement.
Warrant Service Signed July 31, 2025 View agreement →
- Signed by ICE: ICE Field Office: Dallas
- Public affairs contact: Public Affairs Officer, 305 E. Avenue A, Seminole, TX 79360 · 432-758-9871 · jvest@co.gaines.tx.us
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
Contact information for this agency is not yet available.
Agreement History
Dated by when each agreement was signed; where ICE's public data lagged more than two weeks behind, the first-seen date is noted too. Changes we can't tie to a signed document are dated by when they were detected.
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Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: TX0830000.
Dive deeper
The 287(g) participation data doesn't tell us anything about what happened after the agreement was signed. To learn more, the public will need to ask or formally request information. MuckRock is organizing public records requests about immigration enforcement nationwide: