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Original Date Announced
January 26, 2025According to the Washington Post, Trump officials directed senior ICE officials to increase arrests to meet daily quotas. Each field office has been instructed to make 75 arrests per day, with managers "held accountable" for failing to meet the targets. Nationally, this would increase daily ICE arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500.
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2025.01.26 Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests - The Washington PostEffective Date
January 25, 2025Subsequent Trump and Court Action(s)
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February 12, 2025
2025.02.12 The Guardian: Two senior ICE officials reassigned over slow rate of deportations and arrests
The Guardian reports that Russell Holt and Peter Berg, two senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, were recently removed from their posts overseeing enforcement and removal operations and reassigned to local offices. The reassignments were a result of "frustration that deportation and arrest numbers were not increasing fast enough" to meet the Trump administration's targets. DHS confirmed the reassignments, stating ICE "needs a culture of accountability that it has been starved of for the past four years. We have a president, DHS secretary, and American people who rightfully demand results, and our [ICE] leadership will ensure the agency delivers."
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February 21, 2025
2025.02.21 - Reported: CBS - Acting head of ICE reassigned amid frustrations over deportation efforts
CBS reported that the Trump Administration removed Caleb Vitello from his post as acting director of ICE, "amid internal frustrations over the agency's progress in carrying out President Trump's mass deportation goals."
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March 13, 2025
2025.03.13 Motion to Enforce Settlement - Castañon Nava v. DHS
NIJC and the ACLU of Illinois filed a Motion to Enforce the 2022 Settlement Agreement in Castañon Nava, which outlined legal requirements for making warrantless arrests by ICE in Chicago. The motion alleges ICE has recently made 22 warrantless arrests that did not comply with the settlement agreement and asks the court to require ICE to comply with the settlement, provide records of all ICE arrests in the Chicago area since January 20, 2025, and order ICE agents assigned to Chicago to be retrained on the settlement requirements, among other forms of equitable relief. Castañon Nava v. DHS, 18-cv-03757 (N.D. Ill.).
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Current Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Reported In LitigationTrump Administration Actions: Agency Directive Change in PracticeSubject Matter: Interior EnforcementAgencies Affected: ICEAssociated or Derivative Policies
- January 20, 2025 EO 14159: "Protecting the American People Against Invasion"
- January 23, 2025 Reported: ICE has resumed worksite raids
- January 28, 2025 Reported: Immigration officers instructed to wear clothing that clearly depicts their agency for media coverage
Pre Trump-Era Policies
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February 7, 2022
The final settlement agreement in Castañon Nava v. DHS requires ICE to provide individuals arrested by ICE in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Kansas without a warrant with legal recourses, including release from detention on their own recognizance. Current ICE raids may have violated this agreement, which is in place until May 2025.
Final Settlement Agreement, Castañon Nava v. DHS
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Trump-Era Policy Documents
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Prior Policy
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Final Settlement Agreement, Castañon Nava
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Subsequent Action
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2025.03.17 Motion to Enforce Settlement - Castañon Nava v. DHS
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Commentary
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NBC News, "ICE makes close to 1,200 arrests in one day"
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Commentary
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Priscilla Alvarez X Post on ICE Quotas
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Commentary
2025.01.27 ICE makes close to 1200 arrests in one day
NBC News reports that of the 1,179 ICE arrests made on January, 26, 2025, 613--less than 52 percent--were considered "criminal arrests."
Go to article2025.01.28 Priscilla Alvarez X Post Reporting on ICE Quotas
The Trump administration is reportedly requiring at least 1,800 arrests per day by ICE. The quota of 75 arrests per day for each of the agency's offices is therefore a minimum. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on CNN that the quotas "are a floor, not a ceiling. Very importantly, they’re a floor."
Go to article2025.02.05_WBEZ, Trump’s immigration arrests in Chicago raise questions about 4th Amendment violations
WBEZ Chicago reported that immigration raids carried out by the Trump administration in Chicago may raise questions about Fourth Amendment violations and may violate the Castañon Nava v. DHS settlement.
Go to article2025.02.12 - The Guardian: Misleading ICE data ‘laying groundwork’ for mass deportations, advocates say
The Guardian reports that ICE arrested more than 8,200 people between January 22 and 31, 2025, according to data published on ICE's social media. Advocates say the data from which ICE is aggregating is not published and therefore the claims are impossible to verify. The posts do not include the arrests' location, nor the number of people with criminal convictions arrested, calling into question whether the administration is "actually arresting the so-called worst first."
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