Summary

Despite aggressive immigration enforcement efforts, ICE is failing to meet Trump’s mass deportation targets. Initial goals of 1,200–1,500 arrests per day have dropped to fewer than 600.

Resource constraints and exhausted officers have slowed operations, leading to the reassignment of ICE’s top two enforcement officials.

The White House is frustrated by detainees being released due to legal, medical, or logistical issues.

To boost arrests, agents from other federal agencies have been enlisted, and Republicans are pushing for more ICE funding to increase staffing.

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    2 months ago

    Has ICE considered just lying about their numbers? It’s not like anything this administration is doing has any basis in reality anyway.

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      2 months ago

      If I was working for Trump I would be lying my ass off while looking for another job. However it could be argued that staying and lying to him might be good for America.

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    2 months ago

    This is scary because ICE will have incentive to just deport anyone in order to hit a quota.

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    2 months ago

    Don’t answer your door (or your phone) ever, for anyone you don’t know.

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    2 months ago

    This is just so fucking stupid. I wonder if donvict is more worried about it for the racism or just to show to the racists in his base…