Increased funding and leadership changes move ball forward to repair Biden damage to US
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The Trump administration is making leadership changes at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ensure a focus on increasing deportations.
New goals for deportations start at 3000 arrests per day at 'bare minimum' according to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and this will grow as the agency receives increased funding.
The change in quota is nearly double the 1800 arrests per day originally mandated by the Trump Administration in January. If arrests remain static at 3000 per day, the new goal would result in over a million deportations of illegal immigrants per year, reports ZH.
Kenneth Genalo will no longer lead Enforcement and Removal Operations, the ICE branch tasked with carrying out arrests and deportations. Genalo, a longtime ICE official, is retiring and plans to advise agency leaders as a special government employee, officials said, reported CBS.
Meanwhile, Robert Hammer, the head of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations office, was reassigned to another post within the agency that officials described as a "critical leadership position."
"Organizational realignments will help ICE achieve President Trump and the American people's mandate of arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens and making American communities safe," the agency said.
In an interview Thursday with CBS News' "The Takeout," White House "border czar" Tom Homan confirmed he wants to "vastly increase" arrests, and argued a 3,000-arrest-per-day target is attainable.
"The numbers are good. ... They're a lot better than the Biden administration. But it's not good enough," Homan told CBS News' Major Garrett.
