https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...her-rcna191273
Meanwhile at ICE, Vitello told agents in January to aim to meet a daily quota of 1,200-1,400 arrests. According to numbers ICE has posted on X, the highest single day total since Trump was inaugurated was ju5st 1,100, and the number has fallen since that day. On Tuesday of this week, arrests of immigrants were over 800, according to a source familiar with the numbers. But last weekend, there were only about 300 arrests, another source told NBC News.
In order to fulfill Trump’s Inauguration Day promise of “millions and millions” of deportations, the Trump administration would have to be deporting over 2,700 immigrants every day to reach 1 million in a year.
And, as NBC News has reported, arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations. Of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration, 461 were released, according to the White House
So, he's lagging his goals, bigly. The internal goals are 40-50% under the bare minimum for his promise. They're not even hitting those or close to it on avg. And those %'s aren't even matching up with Miller's 1,875 floor vs the 2,740 needed for Trump to be able to say million vs the millions promised.
He's released almost 500 people back into the U.S. He's running out of beds. Isn't turning people over fast enough that they're timing out. So catch and release is still a thing.
He's spending more on enforcement, but not getting the results.
Remember, the cost of a military flight is 6x, at minimum, the cost of an ICE chartered plane. The avg cost per deportation under Biden was $10,500 so we can be sure he's spending more per head. That's also not inclusive of the cost of holding someone in custody.
Tick tock
