Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
But when federal judges pressed for details about that figure last week, the administration denied any such quota existed. The contradiction came in a lawsuit that alleged the intense pressure to rack up arrests had led ICE to conduct illegal sweeps in Los Angeles.
“DHS has confirmed that neither ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or target for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that ICE or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law,” a Justice Department attorney reported to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday.
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Cool, so we can walk back some of that ICE budget then?
Is it “walking back” the goal, or is the MAGA-fied DOJ lying to the courts again?
TACO Tuesday came early this week!
The first round of settlements for unlawful arrest and detention are coming in and they cant afford to foot the bill.
Not gonna lie, if I had a darker complexion and had u.s. citizenship it might be worth the payout to just walk across the street when an ICE raid was ongoing.
Don’t care.
If this was the internet we’d be able to say what these people deserve but. Y’know.
Maybe bcz that was an idiotic goal to begin with…I can only assume this is bcz they’ve decided, instead of arrest goals, now they can just terrorize citizens to their hearts desire…
“Our goal is not 3000/day, it’s 1000000/yr”
State, municipal, and county police say that too and still have quotas. I’ll believe it when they tightly reign it in and stop paying ICE $7 per arrest.