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 agencys 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/
Irish_Dem
(62,144 posts)Deuxcents
(20,597 posts)Irish_Dem
(62,144 posts)Deuxcents
(20,597 posts)Irish_Dem
(62,144 posts)I knew what you meant and you set it up for me to answer.
Deuxcents
(20,597 posts)slightlv
(4,668 posts)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.
C Moon
(12,664 posts)4catsmom
(411 posts)he stiffs everyone
Mike 03
(17,930 posts)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.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,776 posts)A feature
Ocelot II
(122,385 posts)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?
Deuxcents
(20,597 posts)Klarkashton
(2,669 posts)Page locally that think they are only going after criminals and bad guys.
Quotas mean anybody and everybody.
58Sunliner
(5,142 posts)proud patriot
(101,303 posts)tanyev
(45,056 posts)tanyev
(45,056 posts)Norrrm
(114 posts)33taw
(3,007 posts)Solly Mack
(93,514 posts)Grins
(7,992 posts)Police have done this before, and innocent people went to prison for things they never did.
LudwigPastorius
(11,421 posts)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'?
LeftInTX
(31,902 posts)cadoman
(1,047 posts)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)I can't wait for the day that he leaves this Earth, and joins his father and Roy Cohn in HELL!!!
Bluethroughu
(6,460 posts)PortTack
(35,111 posts)To say nothing of the fact the fool spent 858k on one C10 military flight to Columbia for 80 immigrants.
Doomed to fail!
JoseBalow
(6,200 posts)None of this is gonna end well
C0RI0LANUS
(2,583 posts)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), 19401960
Victims of Operation Wetback. (Photo: US Border Patrol Museum)
Jewish forced labor during WWII.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback