ICE Told to Find MORE Migrant’s to Arrest…..

Stephen Miller is probably in the same situation as Elon Musk was in….

(Musk has stepped down from DOGE, which could be limited by Congress soon)

Advertising more than is producing….

His actions ARE causing angst for the undocumented AND for Republicans ….

The actions are N OT playing as well in the media as Trump & Co. thought they would….

The action’s are also stiffening Federal Judges backbones against the actions…..

And finally?

Despite the headlines?

The ICE enforcement actions have beardy scratched the surface of the estimated 11 MILLION undocumented people residing in the United States….

In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

Why it matters: The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump’s term — and suggests the president’s top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

• The increased pressure on agents comes as border-crossing numbers have plummeted in Trump’s first four months. It signals an increasingly aggressive approach to making arrests in non-border communities nationwide.
• It also comes as the Trump administration’s heavy-handed tacticsin rounding up unauthorized immigrants — and in some cases, legal residents and even U.S. citizens — appear to have contributed to President Trump‘s slipping poll numbers on immigration.

Zoom in: Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff and leading architect of President Trump’s immigration policy, laid into top immigration officials during the May 21 meeting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in D.C., according to four people familiar with the meeting.

• Miller demanded that field office directors and special agents in charge get arrest and deportation numbers up as much as possible, pointing to the waves of unauthorized immigrants who were able to enter the U.S. during the Biden administration.

Noem took a milder approach in pushing for more arrests, soliciting feedback from ICE leaders. Special government employee Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign aide, also spoke.

• Miller’s directive and tone had people leaving the meeting feeling their jobs could be in jeopardy if the new targets aren’t reached, two of the sources said. A third person said Miller was trying to motivate people with a harsh tone.
• It’s not the first time Miller has yelled at senior DHS officials about getting arrest and deportation numbers up, sources said.

Zoom out: Immigration officers have almost 49,000 people in ICE custody, according to the latest government data from early May. That’s significantly more people in detention than what Congress has appropriated funding to accommodate.

• But even as the Trump administration has carried out a series of controversial deportation flights to other nations, deportation totals are roughly the same as they were during President Biden‘s last year in office.
• Border-area deportations are lower because fewer migrants are attempting to cross into the U.S., while ICE’s removals from the country’s interior have increased, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an independent organization….

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A look at the actual deportation numbers from outside the Government presentation…

Trump Claims on Immigration Enforcement: Rhetoric vs Reality

Published May 15, 2025

Despite deploying innumerable staff from other agencies to assist in enforcement activities and ordering active-duty military to facilitate removals at the border, the Department of Homeland Security’s claims of record arrests and deportations never materialized. This didn’t stop this administration from announcing in an April 28, 2025, press releasethat its immigration arrests and deportations had “already surpassed the entirety of Fiscal Year 2024 [numbers], and we’re just 100 days into this administration.”

These claims were not simply untrue but preposterous.

Biden’s actual FY 2024 record of 272,000 removals was over twice DHS’s claimed number of 135,000 removals during its first 100 days. So by no means had this administration’s claimed record “already surpassed the entirety of Fiscal 2024.”

But even these claims were gross exaggerations. Instead of 135,000 removals, the Trump administration’s actual number was only around 72,000 removals.

Or using an apples-to-apples comparison, Trump’s average daily rate of removals currently is around one (1) percent below what was Biden’s average daily rate of removals.

This report documents Trump’s actual record both on arrests and on removals, updating TRAC’s February 2025 and March 2025 earlier reports on this same topic.[1]

Trump Administration Rhetoric and Sources of Actual Data

From the beginning, the Trump administration has been waging a media campaign on its successful “stepped up immigration enforcement.” Initially, it announced in social media how many arrests had taken place each day, but when its arrest numbers started falling it stopped issuing arrest numbers.[2] And it featured pictures of individuals in handcuffs boarding military planes to remove them, but never provided actual removal numbers. Now this administration has launched a campaign to convince noncitizens to self-deport to avoid a worse fate at its hands…

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What The Actual Numbers Show

Table 1 below compares the Trump administration’s claimed removals during its first 100 days with ICE’s published statistics. Actual numbers show that Trump administration removals are currently one percent below the daily average number of removals during the Biden administration.

On arrests, the Trump administration has had a difficult time sustaining its arrest numbers so after a big push (typically at the end of each month) numbers rose, but then fell back during the following weeks. After a push at the end of April 2025 involving staff detailed from many agencies to increase arrest numbers, the Trump administration currently has arrested each day just 2 percent more than Biden’s average daily rate for arrests.

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At the current rate the number’s would add up to about 300,000 arrests a year…..

Again?

The Guess is there are 11 MILLION in America…..