The preliminary plan stems from frustration over the pace of the deportations, which are lagging behind President Trump’s demands.
Just start deporting ICE and ICE candidates instead?
Being an active SS officer should mean spending the rest of your life in prison
NYT using neutral speak and missing important context, as always. Anything to cover for those in power.
They’re reassigning some field office managers.
“They are under constant threat; people are ground down; it’s a culture of fear,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior ICE official in the Biden administration. “There has been so much shuffling of deck chairs — I can’t imagine anyone even having the ability to take on real challenges.”
“It’s a toxic job environment, but I get to brutalize immigrants, and that makes it all worth it.” — ICE agent, probably
Here are some numbers:
The Department of Homeland Security says that it has deported more than 400,000 people since Mr. Trump took office, and that it expects to deport 600,000 in total by the end of Mr. Trump’s first year in office.
Still, those numbers are slightly misleading. The Trump administration counts people who are turned back at the border and other ports of entry as “deportations,” even though they have never lived inside the United States.
Since the summer, the agency has typically arrested more than 1,000 people a day.
More than 60,000 migrants are currently in ICE custody, according to agency data, a dramatic increase. ICE received extra funding to ramp up detention and hold more than 100,000 migrants.
And a reminder that it’s not just ICE, but also CBP.
As ICE arrest numbers have lagged, Border Patrol officials have taken on a larger role in immigration enforcement, in sweeps at big-box stores and in a sprawling operation at an apartment complex in Chicago. ICE efforts, by contrast, typically focus on a single subject at a time.
