During the past 15 years, immigration enforcement increased dramatically in the U.S. interior. There is a growing recognition that immigration enforcement in the U.S. interior has spillover effects onto partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement, 287(g) programs, on within North Carolina. In North Carolina, nine counties were approved to establish 287(g) programs, applied but were not approved to participate. I use a triple difference strategy in which I compare different groups of students in these two sets of counties before and after activation of 287(g) and 2012/2013. I find that 287(g) programs decrease school engagement by decreasing attendance. This driven by increases in chronic absenteeism (missing 15 or more days per year).