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riversedge

(77,782 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:18 AM Aug 5

ICE Arrests Plunge in Humiliating Blow to Stephen Miller

Source: daily beast


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The top ally of President Donald Trump has been demanding that ICE detain at least 3,000 migrants day.

Ewan Palmer Aug. 5 2025 10:25AM EDT


The number of arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dropped by nearly 20 percent between June and July, despite Stephen Miller pushing the agency to detain thousands of migrants a day.

Figures from the nonpartisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that ICE booked an average of 990 arrests per day from July 1 to July 27, a sharp 19 percent drop from the daily rate of 1,224 arrests recorded in June.

Both months fall far short of the 3,000-a-day arrests Miller has demanded to fulfill President Donald Trump’s plan to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. The White House deputy chief of staff, credited as the architect of many of Trump’s hardline immigration policies, was reportedly so aggressive he even threatened to fire ICE field office leaders who ranked in the bottom 10 percent for migrant arrests.

Figures show the 56,945 people currently detained by ICE is also down from the 57,861 detainees ICE reported one month ago. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

Trump administration attorneys are now walking back claims in court that Miller ever set such an ambitious arrest target, despite Miller explicitly telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity he was putting it in place in May.

In late July, a federal judge asked Department of Justice attorney Yaakov Roth whether ICE was under pressure to meet an arrest quota, and if that meant people were being rounded up based on race or ethnicity to hit the numbers.

The DoJ has now denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests in Wednesday filings to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-plunge-in-humiliating-blow-to-stephen-miller/





Trump administration attorneys are now walking back claims in court that Miller ever set such an ambitious arrest target, despite Miller explicitly telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity he was putting it in place in May.

The number of ICE arrests fall far short of the 3,000-a-day that Stephen Miller has demanded.

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2025-08-05T14:54:00.508985Z

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ICE Arrests Plunge in Humiliating Blow to Stephen Miller (Original Post) riversedge Aug 5 OP
His truly are the numbers of the beast. Torchlight Aug 5 #1
Stephen Miller Would Do Well to MrWowWow Aug 5 #2
America's Gestapo. republianmushroom Aug 5 #3
My hypothesis... SpankMe Aug 5 #4
I think 1.2 mil might be accurate, but it's much easier to go after "Grandma next door" LeftInTX Aug 5 #17
Just send him away. To Musk, Bannon, Texas, anyplace where the likes of him are welcomed question everything Aug 5 #5
Can't wait until Chump fires him FakeNoose Aug 5 #13
If anything gerryatwork Aug 5 #14
We have enough problems in Texas! I think they should send him to Alligator Alcatraz... LeftInTX Aug 5 #18
Sorry. I was thinking ot the "redistricting" question everything Aug 5 #28
They have stripped all the low hanging fruit ToxMarz Aug 5 #6
That head should come with a warning EYESORE 9001 Aug 5 #7
Ha ha ha Nazi boy! electric_blue68 Aug 5 #8
Observed on one protest sign: Bayard Aug 5 #9
Love this! calimary Aug 5 #15
It had a picture of a bag of crushed ice on it Bayard Aug 5 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 5 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 5 #10
If pants did ignite there would be the biggest human fire anyone has ever seen. Bigly. twodogsbarking Aug 5 #11
THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW. . . Jimvanhise Aug 5 #12
Miller is smart, not like everybody says... like dumb... he's smart and wants respect! (even if cucked) usonian Aug 5 #16
What will ICE do with all their newly appropriated billions? BaronChocula Aug 5 #19
Yes, it's ridiculous. Something like $45 billion Bernardo de La Paz Aug 5 #30
Who created these fake numbers... ECL213 Aug 5 #20
they may be out of visible Immigrants to arrest samsingh Aug 5 #21
People now know to avoid Home Depot parking lots and courthouses dalton99a Aug 5 #22
WTF are they going to do when ICE gets their 20x funding increase? Snarkoleptic Aug 5 #23
AWWW... GiqueCee Aug 5 #24
So if there isn't a "quota" then release all of the innocent people and those non-violent that haven't had chowder66 Aug 5 #25
And no one ever mentions... GiqueCee Aug 5 #26
MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 . IcyPeas Aug 5 #27
Where art thou my MS-13? LeftInTX Aug 5 #34
Maybe Stephen "Eichmann" Miller should fire everyone. CanonRay Aug 5 #29
Here I was thinking somebody named Plunge got arrested and was family breaker's pal... GreenWave Aug 5 #33
Aww.... OldBaldy1701E Aug 5 #35
Cruel Hand Puke: Failure to Incarcerate Blue Owl Aug 5 #36

MrWowWow

(1,209 posts)
2. Stephen Miller Would Do Well to
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:26 AM
Aug 5

Learn to snort blow and maybe even learn to blow. He sure SUCKs at his current job!

SpankMe

(3,599 posts)
4. My hypothesis...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:46 AM
Aug 5

...is that this perennial number of "12M undocumented people" in the US was a fake number, and that the number never was that high. But, everyone glommed on to that number and assumed that there was a pool of "illegals" here so deep that you could go on for years arresting 3k people per day and never run out.

I believe that there are so few out-of-status and deportable people left that ICE just can't find 3k/day any longer. That's one reason why they're slowing from deporting real criminals and are instead deporting people who are easier to tag, like people with even the tiniest marks on their record - the Japanese Mormon green card holder who was deported for having a citation for fishing without a license 6 years prior, and people who had stray marks on their original permanent resident applications.

Even when we had 12M "illegals" here, I never believed illegal immigration was a real problem. I agree were were having problems with illegal border crossings until recently, and that was somewhat of a crisis. But, ICE and CBP were actively handling that. There was no need to go Nazi on the American people.

LeftInTX

(33,933 posts)
17. I think 1.2 mil might be accurate, but it's much easier to go after "Grandma next door"
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:28 PM
Aug 5

than actual criminals. One of my husband's cousins was undocumented until the Bush admin required passports. Prior to that, he saw no reason to become a citizen. And the reason he became a citizen was because he visits family in Nuevo Laredo.


So, I think there are lot of people who just never got around to it. Didn't think of it, didn't have the required documentation, it wasn't necessary etc etc....

Also due process is not being followed and that's another violation right there.

They also are sweeping up US citizens. It's pretty sick when US citizens need to carry passports. And also the "masked ICE agents". (what's up with that?)


Tyler Perry needs to do a "Madea Gets Deported" movie. (Although Madea has a record)


I don't know why they've slowed down. Maybe bad publicity, maybe lawsuits?????

FakeNoose

(38,640 posts)
13. Can't wait until Chump fires him
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:53 PM
Aug 5

... just like he fires anyone who gives him "bad news." In his first term Chump fired half of his staff and several cabinet members before the first year was over. Also Chump fires anyone who makes HIM look bad, which Miller is definitely doing now.

ToxMarz

(2,558 posts)
6. They have stripped all the low hanging fruit
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:54 AM
Aug 5

And all the remaing fruit is adapting to their tactics. They have lost the element of surprise using unprecedented tactics, we've seen their cards. Numbers are going to continue to fall.

Response to calimary (Reply #15)

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Jimvanhise

(507 posts)
12. THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW. . .
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:52 PM
Aug 5

They are breaking laws left and right and when a Democrat becomes President there will be tribunals. It has already been pointed out to many of them that Trump's presidential immunity does not extend to ICE agents and Alligator Alcatraz will be exhibit "A" in the hearings.

usonian

(20,505 posts)
16. Miller is smart, not like everybody says... like dumb... he's smart and wants respect! (even if cucked)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:27 PM
Aug 5

BaronChocula

(3,333 posts)
19. What will ICE do with all their newly appropriated billions?
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:31 PM
Aug 5

I hope this isn't the quiet before the stormtroopers.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,398 posts)
30. Yes, it's ridiculous. Something like $45 billion
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:11 PM
Aug 5

I don't know if that is for 5 years or 10. Suppose 10 at 1,000 per day. That's 3,650,000, so about $11,000 to deport each person. But I doubt they can get that many people to deport.

They drank their own koolaid: "20 to 30 million illegals" (their word).

Corruption strikes again.

samsingh

(18,164 posts)
21. they may be out of visible Immigrants to arrest
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:39 PM
Aug 5

looks like they may have to turn to white europeans

Snarkoleptic

(6,190 posts)
23. WTF are they going to do when ICE gets their 20x funding increase?
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:07 PM
Aug 5

Probably build more concentration camps for political opponents.

I've seen video of 3-4 goons grabbing a granny off the street, so they already seem over-staffed.

GiqueCee

(2,823 posts)
24. AWWW...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:07 PM
Aug 5

... Nosferatu betrayed. His malignant bigotry remains unfulfilled. Pity the poor psychopath.

chowder66

(11,262 posts)
25. So if there isn't a "quota" then release all of the innocent people and those non-violent that haven't had
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:12 PM
Aug 5

any hearings.

GiqueCee

(2,823 posts)
26. And no one ever mentions...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:21 PM
Aug 5

... or even acknowledges, the irrefutable fact that this didn't become the crisis that it is today until "Jellybeans-For-Brains" Reagan used illicit funds from illegal weapons sales to Iran for delaying the release of the hostages in 1980 – before he was even elected – to fund, train, and equip death squads all over Central America because DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED leaders refused to bend the knee to corporate interests that wanted to steal and exploit their resources, resulting in the failed gangster-states that people now risk their lives every day to escape.

My hatred of the Republican Party has always burned hotter that the surface of the Sun, but now it's gone supernova.

IcyPeas

(24,224 posts)
27. MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 .
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 02:26 PM
Aug 5

Have they detained/deported even one actual gang member? Or is ICE too chickenshit to go after them? I'm waiting for the stats on that...



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