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DOJ walking back the WH goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants/day
It's another discrepancy between what White House advisers say and the administration's legal posture.
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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. ...
"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 | Reply
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 | Reply
@#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 | Reply
... 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. ...
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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