Trump Issues Big Beautiful Quotas to ICE Officers for Arrests of Illegals

President Donald Trump has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to arrest at least 1,875 illegal aliens a day as part of his sweeping plan to squelch illegal border crossings.

The directive sets a quota of 75 arrests per day for each of ICE’s 25 field offices, the New York Post reported.

As of Tuesday evening, the agency had arrested more than 4,500 migrants since Trump began his second term last week, by conducting raids across the country — including in the left-wing “sanctuary cities” of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, and Boston.

However, Trump is disappointed with the results so far and has demanded a more aggressive approach, insiders told The Washington Post.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller confirmed the quota on Tuesday, but noted that it’s a minimum — not a maximum.

“The numbers you cited are a floor, not a ceiling,” Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“The goal is to arrest at least that many, but hopefully many more.”

Stephen Miller: ICE arrest quotas are “floor, not a ceiling”
Watch the full video here: https://t.co/nmTeJ5sucW pic.twitter.com/VGBiJ56uHc

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) January 29, 2025

In response to performative left-wing emotional blackmail, the Trump administration said it’s prioritizing illegal aliens who have criminal convictions in their homelands.

“An ICE official who was not authorized to discuss the quota said the agency’s list of criminal suspects was sufficiently long, so officers would be able to continue prioritizing public safety and national security threats to meet quotas,” the Washington Post reported.

Of course, leftists’ sham argument that only migrants who are “criminals” should be deported is absurd because anyone who snuck across the border has broken federal immigration laws.

Overstaying a visa is a civil infraction. But crossing illegally is in fact, a crime. It is a misdemeanor under 8 USC 1325. And illegal re-entry after deportation is a felony, if prosecuted. When factoring in gotaways, there were roughly 10 million illegal crossings under Biden. https://t.co/HDm98ZT2YT

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 28, 2025

The other disingenuous argument pushed by leftists is that arresting 1,000 migrants a day is too much, while ignoring that this wouldn’t even make a dent in the migrant invasion of the past four years.

Even if you accept the low estimate that 10 million migrants unlawfully entered during Joe Biden’s presidency, you’d need to deport 6,850 migrants a day just to undo the damage in four years.

Consider this: If Trump kept the arrest quota at a paltry 500 a day, it would take 55 years to fix Biden’s mass infestation.

No one has the time or the patience for this farcical filibustering.

With the recent quota of 1,200-1,500 deportations per day, it’s important to have a reminder of what’s required for Mass Deportations pic.twitter.com/HjhhqOEh9F

— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔡𝔲𝔰 (@ImperiumFirst) January 27, 2025

Conservative pundits slammed contrived emotional outrage decrying Trump’s deportation program.

“Selena Gomez will cry about illegals who love Mexico more than America being sent back to their home country, but not shed a single tear for the countless Americans killed by illegals or the children trafficked because of a porous border,” X commentator Kangmin Lee noted.

Selena Gomez will cry about illegals who love Mexico more than America being sent back to their home country, but not shed a single tear for the countless Americans killed by illegals or the children trafficked because of a porous border.

Yeah, it’s performative. https://t.co/Eh4iMInoU7

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) January 27, 2025

Some X users pointed out that former President Barack Obama deported far more illegal aliens than any other U.S. president in history.

Indeed, Obama’s deported so many migrants that he was crowned the “Deporter-in-Chief.”

Where is the Hollywood and corporate media outrage over this fact?

Barack Obama deported ~3,200,000 illegal immigrants during his 8 years in office…

That’s an average of:
• 400,000 per year
• 33,000 per month
• 1,100 per day

1,100 people. Every day. For 8 years.

And that was before Biden just let in ~15 Million more over the last 4 years.

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 28, 2025

During his two terms, Obama deported 3 million migrants.

“This is exactly what President Trump is doing right now, but Democrats still pretend to be outraged,” former GOP congressional candidate Christian Collins said.

“If you’re a criminal, you’ll be deported.”

— Barack Obama, November 20, 2014

This is exactly what President Trump is doing right now, but Democrats still pretend to be outraged. pic.twitter.com/187AmTNLc4

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) January 27, 2025

Not only is Trump doing the right thing, but he’s doing exactly what millions of Americans voted him into office to do.

No nation — no matter how rich or powerful — can survive the metastatic impact of unfettered illegal immigration, which drains public resources, erodes social cohesion, and endangers national security.

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