More: The killings came days after Trump, 80, issued a covert order for an arrest surge that swept up more than 10,000 people in five days, as the Daily Beast reported on July 2, with field bosses told the White House expected 2,000 detentions every day, according to the New York Times.

One senior official has now told PunchUp"the Beast's new sister investigations Substack outlet launched this year"that those quotas are behind the bloodshed.

"They are being forced to have quotas again. They are being pushed for numbers and quotas," the official said. "There is a demand for 2,000 arrests a day. Leaders are being fired for bad numbers."

The insider described a workforce stretched past its limits. "They are canceling leave. Stretching the field thin. Pushing them to the extremes. It's a very bad, toxic environment. Morale is horrible."

Agents were denied Independence Day off. "Eighty percent of the office has to be in the field. Made them work on July 4th," they said, adding, "It's not sustainable. And it's not safe. It's bad."