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The Trump administration’s mandate to arrest 3,000 illegal migrants per day is forcing ICE agents to deprioritize going after dangerous criminals and targets with deportation orders, insiders warn.
Instead, federal immigration officers are spending more time rounding up people off the streets, sources said.
And the agency is burning through its budget at a break-neck pace — with ICE already $1 billion over budget, Axios reported Monday.
The quotas force ICE agents to let illegal migrant gangbangers and criminals fly under the radar because the feds no longer have the time for the days-long investigations it takes to hunt them down, said ICE insiders and [former ICE insider] Sandweg.
“The transnational gang members, the convicted felons, the bad actors make it hard on ICE find them. They don’t just sit there and make it easy, they don’t show up in a Home Depot parking lot, hanging around,” said Sandweg.
Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post that the agency is “delivering on President Trump’s and the American people’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens to make America safe.”
“Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst,” she said.
Instead, federal immigration officers are spending more time rounding up people off the streets, sources said.
And the agency is burning through its budget at a break-neck pace — with ICE already $1 billion over budget, Axios reported Monday.
The quotas force ICE agents to let illegal migrant gangbangers and criminals fly under the radar because the feds no longer have the time for the days-long investigations it takes to hunt them down, said ICE insiders and [former ICE insider] Sandweg.
“The transnational gang members, the convicted felons, the bad actors make it hard on ICE find them. They don’t just sit there and make it easy, they don’t show up in a Home Depot parking lot, hanging around,” said Sandweg.
Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post that the agency is “delivering on President Trump’s and the American people’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens to make America safe.”
“Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst,” she said.
