ICE arrests under Trump top 100,000 as officials expand aggressive efforts to detain migrants | On Thursday morning, ICE was holding around 54,000 immigrant detainees in detention facilities across the country

> On Tuesday and Wednesday, ICE recorded more than 2,000 arrests each day, a dramatic increase from the daily average of 660 arrests reported by the agency during Mr. Trump’s first 100 days back at the White House, the federal statistics show. During President Biden’s last year in office, ICE averaged roughly 300 daily arrests, according to agency data.

> The latest numbers show ICE is getting closer to meeting the far-reaching demands of top administration officials like White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner who has forcefully pushed the agency to conduct “a minimum” of 3,000 arrests each day.

> 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.

> The marked increase in ICE arrests across the country — especially in major Democratic-led cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials — comes after the Trump administration replaced two of the agency’s top leaders amid internal frustrations that arrest numbers were not high enough.

I’m actually just depressed that this shit is happening in my lifetime, have we genuinely learnt nothing? Honestly think we’ll be judged for a long time by how we respond to this in the next few years

Biden should have granted a Presidential pardon to every immigrant. 

Is this ethnic cleansing?

How’s 54K compare to Biden or Obama? Wondering if Trump’s showboating while trying to conceal limp stats.