US EditionTrump aid Stephen Miller pushes ICE to ramp up immigration arrests to 3,000 per day: report
- In May 2025, Stephen Miller met with top ICE leadership under stressful circumstances to urge a substantial increase in daily immigration arrests nationwide to 3,000.
- This push follows an expansion of arrest criteria that now includes people without criminal records, departing from the initial focus on public safety threats.
- The administration has bolstered ICE's 6,000 agents, supplemented them with personnel from Customs and Border Protection, DEA, ATF, and US Marshals, and is offering overtime and reassignment incentives.
- Tom Homan emphasized the goal of tripling the current number of arrests and called for increased funding to support this expansion, while ICE continues to face limitations in detention space and is seeking additional budgetary resources.
- The intensified immigration enforcement is straining federal law enforcement resources, leading to reassignments that risk hindering national security work and raising concerns among FBI agents.
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Donald Trump’s ‘border zar’, Tom Homan, said the president’s administration is not satisfied with the number of immigration detentions, so they increased the number of designated agents for this work. Homan explained to the press gathered in the White House gardens that the teams of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) dedicated to the arrests of immigrants and the “focalization” of operations increased “significantly.” “We anticipa…
White House pressure for increased immigration arrests strains law enforcement agencies
The Trump administration is building up federal manpower and resources to meet the White House’s desire to triple the number of daily immigration arrests – signaling a renewed push to go well beyond efforts from previous administrations.
ICE to Increase Illegal Immigrant Arrests to 3,000 per Day: Stephen Miller
Top White House aide Stephen Miller said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is aiming to significantly increase the number of daily arrests of illegal immigrants in an effort to reverse years of mass illegal immigration into the country. Over the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 66,000 illegal immigrants, or about 650 arrests per day, according to an April 29 update …
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