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.
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Lol holy shit, what? 75 arrests a day? What the fuck
Even ignoring the morality of Ice, an arrest quota is terrible because it incentives officers to frame suspects to avoid missing the daily quota. This is the type of thing you read in books from Soviet authors.
Yeah this is were we are going to see unrest and push back from business.
If they are being told they need to deport a couple of thousand, per agent, per month then the only way to do that is turn up at places their targets are known to congregate like workplaces.
How pro Trump are farmers going to remain when ICE turns up to their fields mid harvest, and carries off the entire local workforce?