Trump Issues ICE Quotas In Order To Accelerate Mass Deportations

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Trump Issues ICE Quotas In Order To Accelerate Mass Deportations

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By Cullen McCue
January 26, 2025

U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents have been instructed to aggressively ramp up deportation efforts in the coming days. Instead of arresting a couple hundred illegal aliens per day, ICE agents will now be instructed to increase those numbers to anywhere between 1,200 and 1,500 arrests every single day, according to a report from the Washington Post citing officials familiar with the plan.

The quotas were detailed Saturday in a briefing with senior ICE officials, who were informed that each of the agency’s field offices should make at least 75 arrests a day. Field office leaders who fail to meet the new ICE quotas will be held accountable, four sources familiar with the situation told the Washington Post.

“It’s going very well. We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,” Trump said of the deportation operations earlier this week while meeting with Hurricane Helene survivors in North Carolina. “These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get. As bad as anybody you’ve seen. We’re taking them out first.”

Border czar Tom Homan has long stated that the administration is currently focused on deporting major threats to public safety, such as illegal aliens with serious criminal records. “We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats that we’re looking for. We’ve been working on the target list,” Homan told Fox News when reacting to early deportation efforts, which has resulted in hundreds of arrests and deportations in the early days of Trump’s second term.

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