Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests (goal: arrest 3,000 a day)

[Eugene]

Source: Axios

5 hours ago - Politics & Policy

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests

By Brittany Gibson, Stef W. Kight

In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

Why it matters: The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump's term — and suggests the president's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

• The increased pressure on agents comes as border-crossing numbers have plummeted in Trump's first four months. It signals an increasingly aggressive approach to making arrests in non-border communities nationwide.
• It also comes as the Trump administration's heavy-handed tactics in rounding up unauthorized immigrants — and in some cases, legal residents and even U.S. citizens — appear to have contributed to President Trump's slipping poll numbers on immigration.

Zoom in: Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff and leading architect of President Trump's immigration policy, laid into top immigration officials during the May 21 meeting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in D.C., according to four people familiar with the meeting.

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller

[k_buddy762]

1. Homan has also stated

that he wants ZERO got-aways at the border. Given the rugged terrain, this is unlikely, however they are going to at least be operating with this as their goal.

[sop]

2. ICE will profile and sweep up anyone who even looks hispanic to meet their Miller Quota.

And without due process, they could be on a plane to some third world shithole torture site before anyone even knows they're missing.

[Chasstev365]

3. The transports to the East for resettlement must be filled!

It still.boggles my mind that a Jewish man can ignore the historical persecution of his own people and behave in such an evil, hateful manner.

[cbabe]

5. Got plenty of Christians acting as badly. Some don't have souls to sell.

[zorbasd]

4. First, they haven't gone after the meat packing states,

just wondering why...... Noem.
SD, NE, IA, AR, etc...

[Midnight Writer]

6. Insanity. They don't care who they arrest, whether they are guilty or not, they just want big numbers

No due process, masked Federal agents in plain clothes arresting people without warrants or apparent cause, locking up people in foreign slave labor camps, our Courts and Legislatures neutering themselves, an unstable, demented, malignant narcissist calling the shots.

Is this a great country or what?