By Molly Claire Goddard
2:44am PDT, Jun 6, 2025
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Donald Trump is putting pressure on ICE to keep their arrest numbers up.
According to an insider,
immigration agents hit a milestone of 2,200 illegal migrants detained on Tuesday, June 3, alone after the Republican administration upped their original goal of 1,800 in January. However, staff members are reportedly feeling overwhelmed by the high demands.
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Insiders told the
New York Post that the recent arrest high signals a 37 percent jump from the 1,600 people detained in late May. Despite the results, Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources claim officers haven't had a moment to catch their breath.
"We're paying the price for the last administration's open borders policy," an insider claimed about former President
Joe Biden's more relaxed immigration standards.
People who work for the agency claim they've had "no days off" and have been encouraged to "not be at the office," but rather in the streets making arrests.
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In May, Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressed their frustration with the number of arrests of illegal immigrants. In turn, the officials upped their goal to a "minimum" of 3,000 arrests per day.
"Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day," Miller confirmed during an interview with Fox News. "And President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day, so we can get all of the [Joe] Biden illegals that were flooded into our country for four years out of our country."
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It's not only Donald Trump expressing the need to continue making arrests. The president's border czar,
Tom Homan, claimed that due to Joe Biden's immigration policies, he fears the country is at risk of a terrorist attack.
"Why did 2 million illegal aliens pay more to get away?" he asked during a Monday, June 2, interview with Fox News'
Sean Hannity. "They could have paid half of what they paid to cross the border, turn themselves in to
Border Patrol agents, get released that same day, get a free airline ticket to the city of their choice, get a free hotel room, get three meals a day, plus free medical care and work authorization. Two million people paid more to get away. They didn't want to be vetted. They didn't want to be fingerprinted. Why?"
"This scares the h*** out of me and I've been doing this for 40 years. It should have scared the h*** out of every American what the Biden administration did," Homan added. "Even through the legal process, the Biden administration was bringing people unvetted and handing out work visas like they're candy."
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From the moment Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he and the members of his administration have vowed to crack down on illegal immigration.
"Tonight, I'm announcing a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the U.S.," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made clear in a February post on X. "This serves as a strong warning to criminal
illegal aliens to not come to America. If they do, they will be hunted down and deported. Thank you @realdonaldtrump for securing our border and putting America first."
