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The Washington Post reports:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been directed by Trump officials to aggressively ramp up the number of people they arrest, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, because the president has been disappointed with the results of his mass deportation campaign so far.
The quotas were outlined Saturday in a call with senior ICE officials, who were told that each of the agency’s field offices should make 75 arrests per day and managers would be held accountable for missing those targets.
The orders significantly increase the chance that officers will engage in more indiscriminate enforcement tactics or face accusations of civil rights violations as they strain to meet quotas, according to current and former ICE officials.
Read the full article. Trump regularly claims that there are 20 million undocumented migrants, meaning that even at 1500 arrests per day, it would take take over 36 years to deport all of them. And that’s presuming that zero new migrants arrive during those decades.
Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests — The Washington Post
“The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.”
— Vince D. Monroy (@vincedmonroy.bsky.social) January 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 27, 2025