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They aren't, and it's important that every American citizen knows that. They don't have police authority, and citizens have every right in an encounter with ICE that they would otherwise have. Now, I'm aware that asserting those rights will carry consequences, but we do still have them.
But they are. If the government and the citizenry doesn't strip them of that authority under threat of violence, then they have that authority, de facto.