U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on pace to arrest roughly one million illegal aliens by the end of the Trump administration, a sizable figure but well below President Donald Trump’s target.
The revelation comes as Republicans in the House and Senate look to include border security and deportation provisions and funding in an upcoming spending package that could allow for a significant expansion of ICE arrests.
As the Trump administration pursues mass deportations, the chief agency responsible for arresting and removing illegal aliens has stopped posting daily arrest and detainer figures, but Border Czar Tom Homan has insisted the arrests are on pace as he faces leaks and public obstruction. Prior to Feb. 1, U.S. ICE posted its daily nationwide figures for the arrest of illegal aliens as well as the number of detainers it lodged that day. The agency’s X account notably stopped posting that daily update this week and has instead opted to emphasize the arrest of the most dangerous criminal figures.
The agency’s most recent enforcement update covered Jan. 31 figures, including 864 arrests and 621 detainers. The first such update appeared on its X account Jan. 23 with 538 arrests. Daily arrests reached a high of 1,179 on Jan. 27. To be sure, ICE’s arrest and detainer efforts are ongoing and Homan insisted that arrests were not down.
“I think the arrest numbers I looked at, I just talked about this morning. I think the arrests are right around over 11,000 so far since day one,” Border Czar Tom Homan told reporters on Thursday. […]
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