Trump, “disappointed” by the few arrests of migrants, calls on the quota of arrests | Immigration in the United States

In his attempt to demonstrate that he fulfills his promises – who will not disappoint the millions of Americans who gave him the vote to make his own, again, a better country – Donald Trump did not wait to start the deportations of migrants who, according to him , they will restore order and national security. If on their first day as president the agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) arrested 308 people, already 538 on Thursday, for Sunday the number of detainees was almost 1000. But the Republican seems like a lower figure . Several sources say that, in fact, it feels “disappointed” with the number of arrests. Agents will have to redouble efforts or pay the consequences of not helping him fulfill the biggest deportation goal in the history of the United States.

Trump does not want the arrests to be reported every day but thousands, specifically between 1,200 and 1,500 per day, are entrusted to migration agents. The information was revealed by the newspaper The Washington Postafter holding conversations with four senior ICE officials. To reach such a number, each of the 25 offices that the agency has located throughout the country must meet the “quota” of making 75 daily arrests. Some of these are already being done in numerous cities in the country. This Tuesday morning, ICE launched a raid in New York in which the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem participated.

The directors of these offices, according to the sources, will be the only “responsible” if the indicated sum of arrests that must be carried out during the “24 hours of the day” are not reached. The ultimatum has caused misgivings among those who consider that migration agents could be doing not only “criminal arrests”, but in an eagerness to fulfill the “quota” would be arrested many other migrants and applying “more indiscriminate tactics” and even, even They could face “accusations of civil rights violation.”

Tom Homan, however, insists that “criminal foreigners” are being given priority, as they have always promised. In a recent interview with CNN, where he was questioned about the fulfillment of “quotas” of arrests by ICE agents, the “Tsar of the Border” neither denied nor affirmed the information. “My goal is to stop as many threats to public and national safety threats and move on to the other priorities,” he said.

But ICE arrest figures, and the way in which agents have acted, raise suspicions. Data obtained by NBC News talk about major numbers of arrests of which ICE is publishing. For example, while the agency ensures that last Sunday he arrested 956 people, a senior Trump administration official told the environment that there were actually 1,179, and that only 613 had committed criminal crimes, the rest would be people who did not commit criminal crimes and were arrested for not having a legal status in the country.

It is also feared that the so -called Laken Riley law – which Congress approved and is expected to become the first law signed by Trump – can contribute to the arrest of a greater number of migrants of all kinds by ICE. The rule is named after the 22 -year -old murdered in February 2024 at the hands of a Venezuelan who crossed the border illegally, an event that served the Republicans to justify during the presidential campaign why the closure of the closure of the border and expulsion of millions of emigrants. The law can be able to federal officers to deport illegal migrants who have committed robbery, theft, aggression to a police officer and crimes that cause death or injuries, even without having been convicted.

These eight days of Trump’s republican administration some seem hundreds. Since he held his position as president number 47 of the country, not a few live with the fear of going to work, sending their children to school and even going to hospitals. In victorious tone, the White House X account has been in charge of spreading several images with the faces in the foreground of migrants arrested for reasons ranging from the aggression with a mortal weapon, the possession of controlled substances, drug trafficking and weapons, the violation of minors, alleged links with ISIS, vehicular homicide or sexual crimes, among others.

Under the phrase Make America Safe Again (Making Safe America), That he to play with the triumphal slogan of Trumpism, the Government has boasted to make arrests to Nationals of Angola, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal or Venezuela, In places like Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, among others.

In the first five days of republican administration, the government itself said that they had carried out 2,681 arrests, a number that does not please conservative supporters, who doubt that at this rate the deportation of 11 million migrants is achieved, as announced campaign promises. They fear that, if the rope even more, Trump does not reach his expectation, as happened in his first year of the previous mandate, when he managed to expel 267,000 from the country during fiscal year 2019, a smaller number, for example, than the which reached the administration of Joe Biden in 2024, when the records showed the figure of 271,000 people deported, the largest number in ten years.

Even so, Trump is doing everything possible to boost deportations or, at least, show the world that this is his intention. To the more than 5,000 officers with which ICE already had throughout the country agents of the Department of Justice or FBI personnel were added to arrest migrants. On the border, where there is already talk of a drastic decrease in the meetings, surveillance has also been reinforced with the incorporation of another 1,500 soldiers.