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Reported: Administration officials direct ICE to increase arrests to meet daily quotas

  1. Original Date Announced

    January 26, 2025

    According 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 Post
  2. Effective Date

    January 25, 2025
  3. Subsequent Trump and Court Action(s)

    • 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 Immigrations 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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Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Reported
Trump Administration Actions: Agency Directive Change in Practice
Subject Matter: Interior Enforcement
Agencies Affected: ICE

Associated or Derivative Policies

Pre Trump-Era Policies

  • 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

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."

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  • 2025.01.28 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."

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  • 2025.02.05_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.

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  • 2025.02.12 - 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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