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Zorro

(16,660 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:06 PM Sunday

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests

Source: Washington Post

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, according to four people with knowledge of the briefings.

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 four people spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal briefings.

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.

White House “border czar” Tom Homan has said for weeks that ICE would not conduct mass roundups and its officers would prioritize immigrants with criminal records and who are gang members. But the quotas issued this weekend would place ICE officers under more pressure to seize a wider range of potential deportees to avoid reprimand, including immigrants who have not committed crimes.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/26/ice-arrests-raids-trump-quota/

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Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests (Original Post) Zorro Sunday OP
Didn't Trump put a $1000 bounty on each arrest? Irish_Dem Sunday #1
Is he personally gonna pay that bounty? Deuxcents Sunday #2
You and I are paying for it out of our taxes. Irish_Dem Sunday #5
Yeah..I should have put an emoji with it. Every taxpayer should revolt...I don't want my money being used for this Deuxcents Sunday #6
I didn't need a emoji. Irish_Dem Sunday #10
Happy to oblige Deuxcents Sunday #11
Isn't that one of the ways slightlv Sunday #19
He probably wants Mexico to pay it. C Moon Sunday #14
I wouldn't trust that 4catsmom Sunday #15
CNN has been reporting on this, and it just seems Mike 03 Sunday #3
Not a bug, it's Miguelito Loveless Sunday #17
So to make their quotas they'll arrest anyone who looks Hispanic, Ocelot II Sunday #4
Good question..they took an oath and doing this? Deuxcents Sunday #7
There are stupid people on the Facebook neighborhood Klarkashton Sunday #8
That is some Nazi shit. Fucking sick. 58Sunliner Sunday #9
I concur proud patriot Sunday #24
Have they issued Trump Color Charts yet? tanyev Sunday #12
Yup. WestMichRad Monday #29
Thank you! I knew I remembered seeing an animated chart like that, but couldn't remember where it was from. tanyev Monday #30
Citizen? Prove it. Here are your handcuffs. Get in the van. Norrrm Sunday #13
So, 21 years to deport 12,000,000?. 33taw Sunday #16
Trump did say it would be bloody. Solly Mack Sunday #18
Yeah. That'll work. Grins Sunday #20
Hmmm...I seem to remember another fascist regime that had deportee quotas. LudwigPastorius Sunday #21
Oh brother. LeftInTX Sunday #22
"...according to four people with knowledge of the briefings." cadoman Sunday #23
I have never hated a president as much as I despise Trump. Beacool Monday #25
Sick out. Just say no. Bluethroughu Monday #26
There's not enough money or personnel to do that period! PortTack Monday #27
This is some straight Nazi bullshit right here JoseBalow Monday #28
Republicans are just chock full of friendship, charity, and benevolence, ain't they? C0RI0LANUS Monday #31

Deuxcents

(20,597 posts)
6. Yeah..I should have put an emoji with it. Every taxpayer should revolt...I don't want my money being used for this
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:15 PM
Sunday

slightlv

(4,668 posts)
19. Isn't that one of the ways
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 09:43 PM
Sunday

we taxpayers got rooked into spending our money on church schools, etc? The (now) Magats vocally refused to have their tax dollars spent on public education or other things they didn't approve of... and continually made a huge noise about it? We could do this, and make a HUGE noise, if only we could figure out how to get the media to take notice of us.

Mike 03

(17,930 posts)
3. CNN has been reporting on this, and it just seems
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:10 PM
Sunday

like an atrocious idea. Quotas result in carelessness and these in particular will no doubt result in the arrests of undeserving people including American citizens who just happen to have brown or black skin.

Ocelot II

(122,385 posts)
4. So to make their quotas they'll arrest anyone who looks Hispanic,
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:11 PM
Sunday

worry about sorting them out later, maybe after they've been deported to God knows where? Some American citizens will certainly be among those arrested. They'll snatch up parents, grandparents, any poor soul walking down the street who doesn't look 100% Anglo. This will be ugly. And how do these agents live with themselves?

Klarkashton

(2,669 posts)
8. There are stupid people on the Facebook neighborhood
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:17 PM
Sunday

Page locally that think they are only going after criminals and bad guys.

Quotas mean anybody and everybody.


tanyev

(45,056 posts)
12. Have they issued Trump Color Charts yet?
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 06:36 PM
Sunday
If they’re darker than Dear Leader’s makeup, round them up first and sort them out later.

tanyev

(45,056 posts)
30. Thank you! I knew I remembered seeing an animated chart like that, but couldn't remember where it was from.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:37 AM
Monday

Grins

(7,992 posts)
20. Yeah. That'll work.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 09:58 PM
Sunday

Police have done this before, and innocent people went to prison for things they never did.

LudwigPastorius

(11,421 posts)
21. Hmmm...I seem to remember another fascist regime that had deportee quotas.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:08 PM
Sunday

The question is going to be, what are the Trumpazis going to do with those they've rounded up when other countries stop taking them?

Maybe 'concentrate' them into some kind of 'camps'?

cadoman

(1,047 posts)
23. "...according to four people with knowledge of the briefings."
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:29 PM
Sunday

Press needs to be cautious. TFG knows the last admin was leaky and they're likely floating stuff out to see who can be trusted to keep secrets.

Beacool

(30,339 posts)
25. I have never hated a president as much as I despise Trump.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 12:16 AM
Monday

I can't wait for the day that he leaves this Earth, and joins his father and Roy Cohn in HELL!!!

PortTack

(35,111 posts)
27. There's not enough money or personnel to do that period!
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:01 AM
Monday

To say nothing of the fact the fool spent 858k on one C10 military flight to Columbia for 80 immigrants.

Doomed to fail!

C0RI0LANUS

(2,583 posts)
31. Republicans are just chock full of friendship, charity, and benevolence, ain't they?
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:24 AM
Monday

During WWII, General Eisenhower saw firsthand how millions of people could be relocated efficiently.

As President, his Operation Wetback deported 1.1 million vulnerable people en masse.


US immigration enforcement actions (returns and removals), 1940–1960



Victims of Operation Wetback. (Photo: US Border Patrol Museum)


Jewish forced labor during WWII.




Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

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