Trump officials give ICE goal on number of arrests per day: report

President Donald Trump’s medication is pushing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to summation the fig of arrests per time from a fewer 100 to betwixt astatine slightest 1,200 to 1,500 people, according to a caller study connected Monday. 

Citing 4 sources who spoke connected information of anonymity astir a purported interior telephone with ICE officials connected Saturday, The Washington Post archetypal reported astir the caller objective, categorizing the 1,200 to 1,500 regular targets arsenic "quotas." 

During the call, each ICE tract bureau was told to purpose for 75 arrests per time and that absorption would beryllium held liable if the quotas were not reached, they said. The Post besides reported that existent and erstwhile ICE officials said that they are acrophobic that the quotas marque it much apt that agents volition "engage successful much indiscriminate enforcement tactics oregon look accusations of civilian rights violations." 

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt reportedly told the Post via an email that, "your communicative is false," but did not elaborate. When asked astir the report, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarified, telling Fox News Digital, "Goals is the close phrasing." 

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ICE agents, on with different national instrumentality enforcement agencies, be a pre-enforcement gathering successful Chicago connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"The bottommost enactment is DHS enforcement, whether they beryllium astatine the borderline oregon the interior, needs to support and get transgression aliens retired of the country," the spokesperson added.

Fox News Digital besides reached retired to Leavitt and ICE regarding the report.

Later successful its report, the Washington Post cited different unnamed ICE authoritative who reportedly said that the bureau already has a agelong database of transgression suspects, truthful agents could proceed to people nationalist information and nationalist information threats to scope the quotas.

Last week, acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman rescinded a directive that had prevented ICE from carrying retired migration enforcement astatine delicate locations specified arsenic churches, schools and doctor’s offices. Huffman said the reversal ensured criminals, including murderers and rapists, cannot usage those areas to hide. Trump’s borderline czar, Tom Homan, further defended the determination connected Sunday, explaining that galore MS-13 pack members are often astir property 14 and ICE agents are well-trained and should person the discretion to weed retired nationalist information and nationalist information threats. 

ICE agents sound connected the doorway of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement cognition successful Chicago connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In an quality connected ABC’s "This Week," Homan said the fig of immigration-related arrests would "steadily increase" arsenic helium continues Trump’s wide deportation plan. 

"The aperture close present is constrained to nationalist information threats, nationalist information threats arsenic a smaller population," Homan said. "We're going to bash the aforesaid precedence basal arsenic President Trump's promise. But arsenic that aperture opens, there'll beryllium much arrests nationwide." 

In sanctuary cities, Homan said, ICE is locked retired of jails. That means alternatively of being capable to safely apprehend targets already successful custody earlier they are released backmost onto the streets, ICE agents indispensable behaviour enforcement operations successful the community, expanding the hazard of collateral arrests of amerciable immigrants not charged with convulsive offenses but who instrumentality enforcement find associating with transgression amerciable immigrants and instrumentality into custody arsenic well. 

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"Sweeps don’t hap anywhere," Homan told Phil McGraw, known arsenic Dr. Phil, wrong the ICE Command Center successful Chicago connected Sunday night. The borderline czar and tv doc teamed up to showcase connected McGraw’s streaming service, Meritt TV, however ICE operations are targeting convulsive offenders. Another video shared Sunday nighttime showed Dr. Phil questioning an amerciable immigrant, a convicted enactment offender from Thailand who national agents took into custody successful Chicago. 

ICE agents locomotion down a thoroughfare during a multi-agency targeted enforcement cognition successful Chicago connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

For the past decade, ICE has had a staffing level of astir 5,500 officers nationwide dedicated to migration enforcement, according to the Post.

Trump has directed Homeland Security Investigations, the DHS bureau focused connected counterterrorism, cause smuggling, quality trafficking cases and kid exploitation, to besides assistance with migration enforcement operations.

Last week, Huffman besides issued a directive giving Department of Justice instrumentality enforcement officials successful the U.S. Marshals, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Federal Bureau of Prisons authorization to analyse and apprehend amerciable immigrants.

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"Thanks to the past Administration’s unfastened borderline policies, we’ve seen convulsive criminals and pack members terrorize American communities," Huffman said successful a statement. "Mobilizing these instrumentality enforcement officials volition assistance fulfill President Trump’s committedness to the American radical to transportation retired wide deportations. For decades, efforts to find and apprehend amerciable aliens person not been fixed due resources. This is simply a large measurement successful fixing that problem."