US Customs Border Patrol (CBP) a more militarty based organizrion used to be at the US Southern and Northern Bordres and places Airports and Docks….
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worked inside the country and focused on immigrants with criminal connections and conducted investigations….
CBP actually sends people TO ICE to be acted on….
That was before Stephen Millewr arrived on the scene…
We are informed that now CBP people will be elevated in more leadership postions to ‘muscle’ the effort to find and deport migrants in America….
More arrests ‘Numbers’…..
That probably won’t be the case since ‘The System’ actually has capacity constraints….
And legal roadblocks….
The Department of Homeland Security is installing Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection officials at a number of ICE field offices Trump officials feel are underperforming, part of a broader effort to boost arrest numbers across the country.
Border Patrol’s expanded role is expected to funnel thousands of more arrests to ICE for processing, but the agency’s ability to remove people from the country remains hamstrung by limited bed capacity, bogged down immigration courts and too few planes for removal flights.
“Border Patrol just wants to go out and arrest every person in the world, and it’s easy for them to do that because they go out and arrest them and they turn them over to ICE,” said an administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “You’re giving ICE all of these cases that aren’t ready to be removed. And that creates a challenge for ICE.”
The dynamic highlights a tension at the center of the president’s second term immigration agenda. Trump officials are eager to ramp up arrests and removals, but continually run up against resource and operational challenges amid an overloaded deportation system.
The Trump administration has seen historic lows for illegal border crossings, and roughly 60,000 migrants are currently in ICE detention, a major increase since the president took office. The number of daily arrests peaked at more than 2,000 but typically hover around 1,000 — far less than the 3,000-a-day target floated earlier this year by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. But even Trump allies continue to question the administration’s deportation figures — citing limited data transparency — and say removals can’t keep up with the pace of arrests, a problem that’s bound to expand.
“That is the fundamental challenge,” said a person close to the Trump administration, also granted anonymity to speak candidly. “The real backlog is with the removal process.”
The GOP megabill, signed by Trump in July, provided DHS with billions of dollars in fresh funding to bolster ICE’s ranks and expand detention capacity, but the build-out process has been slow and ICE has struggled with its hiring. The money has helped, but it hasn’t yet been able to square the mismatch between the White House’s large appetite for better numbers and ICE’s expanding but still limited capabilities.
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