Subsequent Trump and Court Action(s)

• February 12, 2025

  2025.02.12 Reported: Two senior Ice officials reassigned over slow rate of deportations and arrests - The Guardian

  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."

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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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• May 14, 2025

  2025.05.14 CBP: April arrests by Maine Border Patrol hit 24-year peak

  In April 2025, CBP in Maine recorded its highest number of monthly arrests in nearly 24 years, apprehending 113 individuals from 16 countries. CBP attributes the increase in arrests to both a rise in border crossings and "expanded United States Border Patrol enforcement throughout the state." CBP reports that international border crossings between Canada and the United States have decreased in Maine, and that the majority of detainees entered the U.S. via the southern border. CBP worked with ICE to transfer 29 of the detainees from Portland, Maine to other parts of the country for further processing.

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• May 28, 2025

  2025.05.28 Reported: Department Chief of Staff Miller and Secretary Noem demand ICE arrest 3,000 a day - Axios

  Axios reported that in a high-level meeting, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem both "demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day." This new target "is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump's term."

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• May 29, 2025

  2025.05.29 ICE - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announces leadership realignment as enforcement efforts continue to ramp up

  ICE announced a leadership realignment to "support its increasing operational tempo as the agency achieved its highest number of arrests in its history this week." This allows ICE to achieve the Trump Administration's mandate of increasing immigration enforcement. Official Ken Genalo, ICE's Acting Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, is retiring from his leadership post but will continue advising ICE as a special government employee. Several other leadership roles were also announced within this statement.

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• June 4, 2025

  2025.06.04 Reported: US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants - The Guardian

  The Guardian reports that senior ICE officials instructed immigration officers via email to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement. Officers were encouraged to come up with new ways of increasing arrests, including through potentially arresting “collaterals,” or undocumented immigrants whom officers encounter while serving arrest warrants for others.

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• June 11, 2025

  2025.06.11 Reported: Under pressure from the White House, ICE seeks new ways to ramp up arrests - New York Times

  The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is escalating tactics to ramp up arrests, including workplace raids, a tip line for reporting undocumented immigrants, and reassigning investigators who usually focus on issues such as human trafficking to help identify targets. ICE is also using a new mapping app that allows agents and officers to see areas around the country with large numbers of people under deportation orders. The app currently contains information about more than 700,000 people, drawn from ICE data and other agencies, and will “eventually allow for the centralized management of all interior enforcement priorities.”

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• June 11, 2025

  Reported: 2025.06.11 ICE sets quotas to deliver on immigration crackdown on employers - Washington Post

  The Washington Post reports that ICE "has ordered its 30 regional offices to meet quotas on inspections of employers’ documentation of their workers’ immigration status . . . The number of . . . [I-9 audits] has increased 'tenfold' since January, three lawyers said . . . The I-9 audits are used to collect evidence that can later be used to obtain warrants for workplace raids." The increased crackdown on employers follows a statement by "border czar" Tom Homan that there would be “more worksite enforcement than you’ve ever seen in the history of this nation.”

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