President Trump is unhappy with pace of ICE arrests as more troops arrive on border
US Border Newsletter Summary: second week of Administration's Immigration Actions
Here’s a summary of notable immigration & border security developments during the second week of the Trump Administration:
During the seven days between January 22 and January 28, ICE reported on its Twitter account arresting 5,537 migrants inside the United States and issuing “detainers”—requests for state and local law enforcement to hand over people in their custody—4,333 times. However, Vox and the Associated Press noted these figures are comparable to those reported during the Biden Administration.
President Trump is reportedly unhappy with the pace of ICE arrests and is demanding the agency to make more. The Washington Post revealed that on January 25, the Trump administration communicated to senior ICE officials a “quota” of 75 arrests per day for each of the agency’s 25 field offices—1,875 arrests per day.
As you can see from the latest report from ICE below - the agency will have to drastically ramp up arrests to generate those numbers:
The result is likely to be a vast increase in arrests of migrants with no criminal records and many ICE agents pulled away from other missions like fighting organized crime and human trafficking, a former senior ICE official told Greg Sargent of the New Republic.
President Trump’s order of 1,500 active-duty military personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border is being executed, as members of some units are “ scrambling” to relocate from the U.S. interior.
These include members of these Army units, many of them military police:
The 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, New York;
The 23rd Military Police Company, based at Fort Drum, New York;
The 41st Combat Engineer Company-Armored, based at Fort Riley, Kansas;
The 66th Military Police Company, based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington;
The 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina;
The 89th Military Police Brigade, based at Fort Cavazos, Texas;
The 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky;
The 202nd Military Police Company, based at Fort Bliss, Texas;
The 401st Military Police Company, based at Fort Cavazos, Texas;
The 530th Combat Engineer Company-Armored, based at Fort Stewart, Georgia;
The 549th Military Police Company, based at Fort Stewart, Georgia;
The 569th Combat Engineer Company-Armored, based at Fort Carson, Colorado;
The 716th Military Police Battalion based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky;
The 720th Military Police Battalion, based at Fort Cavazos, Texas;
The 759th Military Police Battalion, based at Fort Carson, Colorado; and
The 977th Military Police Company, based at Fort Riley, Kansas.
They are joined by 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton, California, from:
1st Combat Engineer Battalion of the 1st Marine Division;
The California Detachment from the 7th Engineer Support Battalion; and
The 1st Marine Logistics Group.
The Air Force has devoted four aircraft to the deportation effort - and the Coast Guard has supplied aircraft to ferry deportees from California to Texas for return to their home countries.

The Coast Guard has also assigned Riverene Patrol Boats to the Rio Grande to assist the Border Patrol in securing the Texas border. You can read more about that in this story I filed Saturday to US Border News.
In case you missed it (recent US Border News stories of note):
Cartel Fires on Border Patrol - Texas Troops & Troopers Rush to Area
Immigration Raid Blitz Underway - Amplified by Federal PR Machine
"Non-Stop" Migrant Deportations Reported Underway Along Border
NOTE: This newsletter's summary was generated from a far more comprehensive weekly summary by wola.org, which you can read HERE. (If you found this summary helpful, we invite you to support WOLA’s work).
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers