Throughout President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, he promised to carry out mass deportations to undo the damage caused by former President Joe Biden over the past four years.
Late last month, Stephen Miller, an aide to President Trump, confirmed that the administration would push immigration officers to triple their arrests in the coming weeks.
“Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day, and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day so we can get all of the Biden the illegals that were flooded into our country for four years out of our country,” Miller said in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.
Consequently, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out the most illegal immigrant arrests in a single day this month, which Townhall covered.
This week, several reports indicated that ICE arrests have now surpassed 100,000 under President Trump.
Reportedly, in fiscal year 2024, ICE arrested 113,000 people. The Trump administration has hit the 100,000 threshold in less than half a year, this time around (via CBS News):
On Thursday morning, ICE was holding around 54,000 immigrant detainees in detention facilities across the country, according to the data. The Trump administration is asking Congress to give ICE billions of dollars in extra funds to hire thousands of additional deportation officers and expand detention capacity to hold 100,000 individuals at any given point. Officials are also looking at converting facilities inside military bases into immigration detention centers.
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Trump administration officials have framed the aggressive expansion of immigration operations as necessary to fulfill the president's signature campaign promises of cracking down on illegal immigration, expelling immigrants with criminal histories and overseeing the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
