ICE Insiders Turn on Trump over Wave of Fatalities

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Senior ICE officials are blaming President Donald Trump's demand for mass arrests for a wave of deadly shootings by immigration agent ...

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BREAKING: President Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new order to suspend them.

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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."

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-07-14 10:34 AM | Reply

DJT's tiny hands are bloody from these and literally 100's of thousands of other deaths here and around the world.

You own this, Trumpers.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-14 10:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

officers "pushed to the breaking point" are being forced into fatal confrontations, PunchUp reports.

POSTED BY QCP

Kind of like firefighters, "pushed to the breaking point", are murdering children during fires.

BS. Merely more proof that Trump is an incompetent monster who commands incompetent monsters.

ICE needs destroying. It's much, much worse than what it seeks to cure.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-14 10:43 AM | Reply

DJT's tiny hands are bloody from these and literally 100's of thousands of other deaths here and around the world.

You own this, Trumpers.

#2 | POSTED BY CORKY

Fascists don't care if people not themselves die.

I've been hanging around here a long time. Never seen it.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-14 10:45 AM | Reply

If you examine Trump/ICE's responses to these murders over time, it is evident that they are searching for a license to kill. Some form of words and legal expedience that will make them all "Double 0" agents.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-14 10:58 AM | Reply

Hire a killer, expect him to kill.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-14 11:21 AM | Reply

"Kind of like firefighters, "pushed to the breaking point", are murdering children during fires."

Are firefighters being pressured to meet quotas to detain or arrest children?

#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-14 02:14 PM | Reply

There's quite a bit of primary source material available about another oppressive regime that went quota crazy, filling up trains with folks destined for "emigration" and "resettlement" and such.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-14 02:23 PM | Reply

'There's quite a bit of primary source material available about another oppressive regime that went quota crazy, filling up trains with folks destined for "emigration" and "resettlement" and such'

Quite a few oppressive regimes fit that model. Western Europe also went kind of crazy with it after WW2 in response to what the Germans did. The Soviet version of it was the worst, though.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-14 02:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Are firefighters being pressured to meet quotas to detain or arrest children?

#7 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Not that I know of.

Neither are they recruited for their innate savagery and bigotry.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-14 02:58 PM | Reply

"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 a day. Leaders are being fired for bad numbers."

It's the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-07-14 09:47 PM | Reply

Nazi defends fascists. Did NAZI that coming

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-16 06:18 PM | Reply