Another shake-up at ICE as agency lags behind quotas; two more top officials removed

ICE officials ousted amid demands for more immigrant arrests​

The ousted officials are Kenneth Genalo, ICE's enforcement and removal director [retiring], and Robert Hammer, the Department of Homeland Security's investigations director [shuffled elsewhere] who has handled particularly complex cases involving criminal immigrants.

The changes come a week after top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that ICE seek to arrest 3,000 people a day — triple what agents were arresting in the early days of the administration.

Agents did bring in 1,600 the day before the leadership changes — a substantial rise but not close to Miller and Noem's goal, people familiar with the agency's internal data said.

• Earlier this year Noem reassigned ICE's director and deputy director.
• They were replaced with ICE veteran Todd Lyons and Madison Sheehan, who was previously a political staffer of Noem's. Some insiders believe Lyons' job might also be at risk now.

This insistence on quantity over quality is why we're seeing sick children (even citizens) kicked out of the country.
The FBI is turning its eyes away from domestic terrorism and reassigning agents to immigration duties.
The new budget looks like it will have billions in additional spending to pay to house all these people.

Gotta get those numbers up!

Veteran's Daughter Living in US 48 years Locked Up by ICE​

Her father, Lawrence Bowman, a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. Alma Bowman was born in the Philippines in 1966, and her family relocated to the United States a decade later. She has lived in Macon, Georgia, for almost 50 years.

Until March, she had been checking in with ICE about once a year while pursuing a claim for U.S. citizenship, which she began in 2020. According to Hamilton, ICE did not provide a reason for the recent change in her case status.

Gotta get those numbers up (and lie to the American people)

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes​

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.​

President Donald Trump and his aides have branded the Venezuelans as “rapists,” “savages,” “monsters” and “the worst of the worst.” When multiple news organizations disputed those assertions with reporting that showed many of the deportees did not have criminal records, the administration doubled down. It said that its assessment of the deportees was based on a thorough vetting process that included looking at crimes committed both inside and outside the United States. But the government’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of journalists from Venezuela, showed that officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.

The data indicates that the government knew that only six of the immigrants were convicted of violent crimes: four for assault, one for kidnapping and one for a weapons offense.

As for foreign offenses, our own review of court and police records from around the United States and in Latin American countries where the deportees had lived found evidence of arrests or convictions for 20 of the 238 men. Of those, 11 involved violent crimes such as armed robbery, assault or murder, including one man who the Chilean government had asked the U.S. to extradite to face kidnapping and drug charges there.

ProPublica and the Tribune, along with Venezuelan media outlets Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters) and Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates), also obtained lists of alleged gang members that are kept by Venezuelan law enforcement officials and the international law enforcement agency Interpol. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.

wing2000 said:

...never going to happen. ICE holding facilities are already full...around 40k persons. ICE simply does not have the human resources nor physical holding facilities to support 3,000 arrest a day.

No wonder people are leaving. Who wants to work under such unreleastic goals?

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Me then: It's impossible and even the attempt is going to cost lots of additional money. We would do better to focus our existing resources like the Deporter in Chief did and go after the bad guys.

MAGA: So you just want to do nothing about the other illegals?

Me now: If it means we stop hassling middle aged ladies in wheelchairs and toddlers with potentially fatal diseases, by all means let's do nothing.