Monday, August 04, 2025

DOJ Walking Back the White House Goal to Arrest 3,000 Immigrants/day

It's another discrepancy between what White House advisers say and the administration's legal posture.

Posted by LampLighter at 06:30 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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Lawyers for the DOJ said "neither ICE leadership nor its field offices" were directed to meet any numerical quota for arrests.

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-- Newsweek (@newsweek.com) Aug 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM

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... 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.

"Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day," the senior White House adviser told Fox News' Sean Hannity in May.

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. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 06:31 PM

Notice the language and the goal.

The goal is not to deport 3,000 illegal immigrants a day.

The goal is "a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day."

"Illegal" isn't even part of the goal.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-03 08:42 PM

@#2

Good point.

Even with that, though, the Trump admin seems to back away from it in court proceedings.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 08:47 PM

More from the article ...

... It's not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration's single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law. Washington-based Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, cited the figure when she ruled Friday that the administration's dramatic expansion of "expedited" deportation proceedings violated the law. And Judge Trina Thompson, a Biden appointee in San Francisco, pointed to the purported goal Thursday when she blocked the administration's bid to end temporary protected status for tens of thousands of Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants.

But on Wednesday, the Justice Department said no such orders had ever been given. ...



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 08:49 PM

So, why does the Trump admin seem to be doing such a major, ummm ~tail between its legs,~ TACO on this one?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 08:50 PM

Stinky vastly overstated the number of criminal undocumented immigrants and Baby Goebbels desperate for the chubby he gets trampling peoples constitutional rights was all too eager to abuse legal immigrants along with american citizens to replace the love Elon stole from him.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-04 08:28 AM

Wait until they expand their use of the military...

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-04 10:37 AM

So, why does the Trump admin seem to be doing such a major, ummm ~tail between its legs,~ TACO on this one?

#5 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

This is a typical case of FAFO.

The midterms are coming. And they are FINDING OUT that the illegal arrests and the current jack booted thug look is not playing well with Americans.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-04 07:30 PM

Does this mean that community playgrounds, kindergarten kids, kids waiting at school bus stops and church picknicks can take a deep breath for a while?

Don't bet on it. A head count is a head count that counts.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-05 01:24 PM

Trump is two-faced. What he says out of one face is opposite of what the other face tells the DOJ or ICE.

#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-05 04:31 PM

DONNER @ #8

I hope that's not just wishful thinking because, as Karl Rove once quipped, "Republican voters are stupid."

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-06 07:57 AM

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