This HAS BEEN quietly going on since people;e started going to court against the White House anti-immigrant guy Stephen Miller….
The Justice Dept. has to answer in court for Miller’s number’s push to ‘get rid’ of migrants….
At first the story was getting rid of migrants that where criminal’s….
But?
Media reports now point to ‘sweeps’ where ANY migrant or even some American citizens get detained and worse , exported out of the country….
The Supreme Court has ruled that detained migrants are entitiled to a hearing….
These days showing up for the hearing is liable to get the migrant detained a whisked off in cuff’s…
The turn towards actions that judges and courts have ruled against has put the Justice Dept in a conflict with Miller, who works out of the White House…
Even Trump has problems with Miller….
The President HAD said he wanted farm, hotel and food service migrants off limits to ICE raids….
Miller has not done so….
So?
There IS a rumour around the Miller want’s 3,000 arrest a day…
Justice Department lawyers have had to stand before judges and deny that…
What IS the TRUTH?
Who is running the government’s action?
Who IS pushing to ignore the judges , courts and the Law for their own ?
Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day,” the senior White House adviser told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in May.
But when federal judges pressed for details about that figure last week, the administration denied any such quota existed. The contradiction came in a lawsuit that alleged the intense pressure to rack up arrests had led ICE to conduct illegal sweeps in Los Angeles.
It’s not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration’s single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law. Washington-based Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, cited the figure when she ruled Friday that the administration’s dramatic expansion of “expedited” deportation proceedings violated the law. And Judge Trina Thompson, a Biden appointee in San Francisco, pointed to the purported goal Thursday when she blocked the administration’s bid to end temporary protected status for tens of thousands of Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants.
But on Wednesday, the Justice Department said no such orders had ever been given.
“DHS has confirmed that neither ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or target for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that ICE or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law,” a Justice Department attorney reported to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals…
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Immigration advocates have pointed to reports about the daily 3,000-arrest quota as proof that the administration’s most extreme tactics — ones they contend violate due process and other constitutional or legal principles — are the result of a single-minded drive to hit numerical targets. Judges havepointed to those reports as well, figuring them into the analysis of whether the administration’s tactics are legal…
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A lawyer fighting the immigration arrests, Mohammad Tajsar of the ACLU, told the appeals court in a filing Thursday that the government’s statements do not rule out the existence of some sort of quota motivating ICE officers.
“Defendants’ carefully worded letter does not negate an arrest quota,” Tajsar wrote. “Those actions can heavily influence agents’ and officers’ conduct.”….