WAPO: Trump Officials Ordered ICE Arrests to Increase To 1,500 Per Day!

According to the Washington Post (which should be balanced against their irrational hatred of President Trump and potential for incorrect reporting in order to stir up controversy), the Trump Administration has just issued new order to ICE to increase daily arrests from a few hundred to 1,200-1,500!

🚨 WAPO: Trump officials have issued quotas to ICE officers to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred a day to at least 1,500

It’s happening. pic.twitter.com/yhN1dqSDon

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 26, 2025

Local NBC5 confirms “enhanced operations” have been running in Chicago all weekend:

With multiple top Trump administration officials in Chicago, ICE confirmed that it has begun “enhanced targeted operations” in the city and suburbs.

According to a statement, ICE is coordinating with multiple federal agencies “to enforce U.S. immigration law” by conducting operations in the city of Chicago, with acting deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and Trump’s border czar Tom Homan observing those operations.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with federal partners, including the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service, began conducting enhanced targeted operations today in Chicago to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities,” ICE said in the statement.

The Drug Enforcement Administration also confirmed they were assisting with enforcement efforts in the city in a social media post.

No official numbers have been given for arrests or detentions related to activities, with officials saying their primary focus will be on those accused of, or convicted of, violent crimes.

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NBC News had confirmed Bove was in the city, along with Homan, on Sunday morning, and he told reporters he had done a ride-along with agents during his visit.

“This morning, I had the privilege of observing brave men and women of the Department deploying in lockstep with DHS to address a national emergency arising from four years of failed immigration policy,” Bove said in a statement. “In Chicago, and across the country, FBI, DEA, ATF, USMS, and federal prosecutors are working with DHS to secure the border, stop this invasion, and make America safe again. We will support everyone at the federal, state, and local levels who joins this critical mission to take back our communities.”

According to the Washington Post, more than 500 arrests were made by ICE on Thursday and nearly 600 more were made on Friday, with additional actions planned across the nation in coming weeks.

Those arrests come as ICE and other law enforcement agencies see policy changes that allow them to arrest undocumented individuals at or near “sensitive locations,” which include hospitals, school sand houses of worship, according to officials.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, echoing previous vows to assist federal law enforcement in apprehending those accused or convicted of violent crimes, while promising to defend “law-abiding” citizens amid the stepped-up actions.

“We’re going to follow the law in Illinois. We expect them to do the same, and I’m very afraid they will not follow the law,” he said.

Charlie Kirk makes an excellent point here….the Democrats and Biden Regime knew where ALL of these thugs lived and refused to do anything about it.

It was all well known.

Democrats were happier letting Americans die:

As ICE continues making its arrests, remember this: Democrats knew exactly where these thugs lived and the violent crimes they'd committed, but they would rather let Americans die than let a foreigner get deported.

That's how morally dark the Democrat Party has become. pic.twitter.com/QuFXDpraUx

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 24, 2025

Here’s more on the active raids, from CNN:

The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago on Sunday that includes several federal agencies that have been granted additional authorities to arrest undocumented immigrants in the US, according to multiple sources.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are expected to be joined by officials from multiple Department of Justice agencies as they target public safety and national security threats. It’s a multiday operation that will spread across the country.

In a statement, ICE confirmed the “enhanced targeted operations” in Chicago began Sunday.

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“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with federal partners, including the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service, began conducting enhanced targeted operations today in Chicago to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities,” the statement reads.

The Chicago operation is part of a broader effort to add manpower to ICE, which has limited resources and agents, as the administration tries to ramp up arrests nationwide and amass a larger force to carry out President Donald Trump’s deportation pledge.

ICE field offices have been told to meet a quota of 75 arrests per day as part of this effort to increase apprehensions of migrants in the US, according to two sources. In the last fiscal year, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted 113,431 administrative arrests, according to an agency report. That would be about 310 arrests a day across all field offices.

The latest directive to ICE teams would pave the way to surpassing the number of daily arrests in the past year while placing additional pressure on ICE officers as they try to meet the quota.

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The immigration crackdown has included sweeping executive orders restricting legal pathways to come to the United States, expanding the powers of immigration authorities, attempting to ban birthright citizenship and threatening sanctuary jurisdictions. The deportations have also escalated tensions with at least two South American allies. Trump announced emergency retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after two repatriation flights of migrants were not allowed to land there, he said on his Truth Social network.

Late last week, acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a directive giving Justice Department law enforcement officials immigration-enforcement authority. The agencies include the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, US Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“Mobilizing these law enforcement officials will help fulfill President Trump’s promise to the American people to carry out mass deportations,” Huffman said in a statement announcing his directive.