Meanwhile at ICE, Vitello told agents in January to
aim to meet a daily quota of 1,200-1,400 arrests. According to numbers
ICE has posted on X, the highest single day total since Trump was
inaugurated was just 1,100, and the number has fallen since that day. On
Tuesday of this week, arrests of immigrants were over 800, according to
a source familiar with the numbers. But last weekend, there were only
about 300 arrests, another source told NBC News.
In order to fulfill Trump’s Inauguration Day promise of “millions and millions” of deportations, the Trump administration would have to be deporting over 2,700 immigrants every day to reach 1 million in a year.
And, as NBC News has reported, arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations. Of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration, 461 were released, according to the White House.
More.
They were supposed to end catch and release on day one. They can't do even that.
