Ben Whedon
Immigration and enforcement of goals in the USA is able to arrest about a million illegal aliens at the end of Trump’s administration, a huge number, but well below the purpose of President Donald Trump.
Revelation occurs when Republicans in the Chamber and the Senate want to include regulations regarding the security of borders and deportations and financing in the upcoming expenditure package, which can allow a significant extension of ice arrests.
When the Trump administration carries out mass deportations, the main agency responsible for arresting and removing illegal aliens ceased to publish daily arrests and detained data, but the spell limit Tom Homan insisted that the arrests would be the pace because it is in the face of leaks and public obstacles. Before February 1, ICE US published daily nationwide data on the arrest of illegal aliens, as well as the number of detainees he submitted that day. The X agency account in particular stopped publishing this daily update this week and instead decided to emphasize the arrest of the most unsafe criminal data.
The latest agencies Updating enforcement The numbers covered on January 31, including 864 arrests and 621 detainees. . First such update He appeared on his account X on January 23 of 538 arrests. Daily arrests have achieved Height 1179 January 27. Of course, the arrest and detention of ICE are ongoing, and Homan insisted that the arrests would not fall.
“I think that the number of arrests I looked at was just saying this morning. I think arrests are about 11,000 from the first day, “Border Cin Tom Homan told journalists on Thursday.
On the right track for a million
Counting on January 20 and excluding all Thursday numbers, 11,000 numbers would present an average of almost 650 arrests per day. If the arrests continue at this pace, Trump would be able to arrest almost 1 million illegal immigrants for the remaining four years of office. However, he expressed hope for deporting up to 20 times in this number. Fortunately for Trump, the second half of his first 10 days seems to show a loose augment in pace. Further benefits for ICE in his deportation efforts are the falling number of everyday arrests on the southern border due to fewer newcomers.
“I mean yesterday, after 24 hours, it was less than 50 border arrests. Recently, we had 11,000 arrests per day under the Biden administration. We have less than 500 – said Homan.
Earlier he pointed out that he expected the arrests and deportations to start slowly, but expand the exponently when the administration introduced infrastructure to arrest on a larger scale. Even in less than two weeks of Trump’s efforts, this trend seems materializing.
Currently, Complication of Homan’s efforts, however, are performance problems and leaks that threaten individual operations. Such a problem was ubiquitous during the first administration, and the then security secretary Homeland Kirstjen Nielsen was full of leaks, especially Miles Taylor, or “anonymous”.
Leaks and sabotage of efforts
At least some from the outside are not in a state of efforts of Trump’s administration about the deportation of illegal immigrants. Border Czar Toman confirmed on Thursday that the planned raid of ICE on residential buildings in Aurora in Colo.
Aurora was in headers during the presidential campaign in 2024, when Venezuelan Gang Tren de Aragua occupied many residential complexes in the city.
“We have already identified how this operation was leaked. I will deal with it today ” Said Fox News. “That this kind of disturbance exposes officers to high risk.”
In addition, he suggested that the agency would probably limit access to the media to its actions to limit the possibilities of information to achieve operational goals.
(*1*)he told journalists. “So we look at it now.”
Capacity problems
This week, Trump was the first of many planned flights that sent illegal immigrants to Guantanamo bay, left the USA. Prison insurance has become notorious as a landfill for terrorists, but Trump’s administration wants to rely on existing imprisonment of migrants and on the site to enable greater deportations.
“Listen, we have had a migrant processing center in Gitmo for decades, so we are increasing our trail there. It makes sense – said Homan. “I just got a question about migrant beds. This will be another place where we have up to 30,000 beds. “
The Guantanamo bay in Cuba entered us because of the Spanish-American war. The add -on almost doubles ice retaining beds. According to the year in a tax year, in the tax year ICE received funds for a detention of 41,500 American immigration council.
Also separately the USA He discussed the contract To keep prisoners at an establishment in El Salvador served by the government of President Nayib Bukele. His government drew international attention for repression about gang surgery in which crime indicators in the country have fallen. However, the legality of maintaining American prisoners in El Salvador will certainly face legal control.
Expected support from Congress
Trump met on Thursday with the speaker of the house Mike Johnson and the House Republican Conference to discuss the upcoming expenditure package. The regulations are expected to include a number of provisions codifying executive orders related to Trump’s immigration, as well as additional financing of ICE and related agencies.
While the acts of the Congress strengthening Trump’s movements will certainly provide ice with greater legal protection, the agency will probably need to extend financing, intelligence resources and general staff to achieve the number of arrest necessary to achieve Trump’s goals.
Although both chambers will have to pass such provisions, the Senate decided to overtake the lower chamber, with sleep. Lindsey GrahamRs.c., on Thursday, announcing plans to mark a resolution worth $ 300 billion for financing the deportation and security of borders.
“It will be the most transformational border security project in the history of our country,” he vowed. Graham did not provide many details about the failure of $ 300 billion, but Ice, the border patrol and the Immigration Executive Office received less than $ 20 billion in the 2024 tax year, according to Aic.
From the executive department
Trump is expected to support Homan to the handle, but several other agencies can also provide support, especially the Department of Justice, which Stopped financing For the cities of Sanctuary on the first day of the Pam Bondi Prosecutor General.
Her department will face the task of a dispute related to the deportation, which remain susceptible to court orders and other legal controls. However, freezing the financing of cities of the sanctuary may cause that some illegal immigration hotspots think about their positions and cooperate with ice in a way that can significantly augment the pace of arrest.
Doj Bondi also directly sued the main jurisdiction of the sanctuary On Thursday, claiming that Chicago and Illinois’s state “are to” actually interfere and discriminate against the enforcement of the federal immigration law of the Federal Government in violation of the United States Constitution Suppreation Clause. “
Popular support
The agency enjoys broad public support among its efforts. Recent Economist/Yougov For example, the study showed that 50% of US adults with a positive view of ICE compared to 35%, who had a negative view, and 15% were not certain. No wonder that the numbers differ dramatically depending on the party, from 71% of republicans and 39% of democrats watch ice positively.
Meanwhile, law enforcement agents are delighted with Trump’s efforts. Talking with Only a message At the beginning of this month, the Vice President of the National Border Guard Council Art cueto These agents were “simply delighted. You know, I think that President Trump does a lot with rhetoric, and now with executive orders trying to settle the matter, and people are now self -sufficient. “
Homan, for his part, encouraged illegal immigrants to self -control when news of voluntary exits appeared on the headlines, saying: “We are prioritized threat in the field of public security and the threat to national security, if you want to pay, you should be self -integrated -Dport, Because we know who you are again and we will come and find you. “
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Ben Whedon is only a news reporter.
