ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Billy Hitchens have asked ICE to train 1,100 state officers, according to a press release.

Kemp and Hitchens requested that ICE train state troopers in “identifying and apprehending illegal aliens who pose a risk to public safety in the state” under the 287(g) program, the press release said.

As of Monday evening, ICE had not formally accepted the governor’s request, according to a spokesperson for Kemp’s office.

Atlanta News First reached out to ICE for specifics of the training. ANF did not hear back by Monday evening.

The program “enables ICE to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions.”

Multiple Georgia Department of Corrections officers already participate in the program. The Department of Corrections currently holds 1,730 ICE detainers.

Kemp said, “If you are in our country illegally and committing crimes, you have no place in Georgia.” He went on to call the request a “commonsense measure.”

Atlanta’s FBI office has increased its coordination with ICE since President Trump was elected.

“It’s urgent and it’s busy. So every day, we have agents that are out with our other federal agencies helping with enforcement everyday,” said Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown, in an interview with Atlanta News First, earlier this month.

Brown said FBI Atlanta was expected to soon receive more resources from the federal DC headquarters to assist in immigration enforcement.

On Monday evening, protesters lined Jonesboro Road in Clayton County in solidarity with the immigration community.

“We feel like it’s a really important time for there to be a mass movement in the streets defending immigrant rights,” said Jacob Dallas-Main, an organizer of the rally.

“We care about (immigrants). We’re here to fight for them, we’re here to defend them,” Dallas-Main continued.

Dallas-Main said the rally, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, also called for the abolition of ICE.

Similar protests have been organized along Buford Highway and in downtown Atlanta.

The first law President Donald Trump signed in his second term was the Laken Riley Act. The law requires federal officials to arrest undocumented immigrants who commit theft, burglary, larceny or shoplifting offenses and would mandate they are detained until they are removed from the United States. It is named after an Augusta University student killed on the University of Georgia campus by a man who was in the country illegally and was convicted in connection to her death.

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