U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed dissatisfaction with the results of his campaign for mass deportation of undocumented migrants.
According to The Washington Post, he has instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to significantly increase the number of arrests, citing informed sources.
During a meeting with ICE leadership on Saturday, new quotas were reportedly set: the number of arrests should increase from several hundred per day to 1,200–1,500. Agency leaders were warned that they would be held accountable for failing to meet these targets.
Trump also demanded that raids be conducted around the clock and that ICE employees temporarily suspend their vacations. Additionally, the president directed ICE’s division responsible for national security investigations to focus on immigration-related tasks. This division traditionally handles cases involving terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and other serious crimes.
Former ICE officials have raised concerns that reallocating resources to civil immigration enforcement could undermine the agency’s ability to investigate serious crimes effectively.
