Jan. 26 The administration said arrests could pick up quickly: The Washington Post reports ICE officials have been told to aim for 1,200 to 1,500 daily arrests, including at least 75 arrests by each of the agency’s roughly two dozen field offices.

Immigration raids across the US have reached their highest point since President Trump's administration took office.

The Trump administration is aiming to arrest 1,200 to 1,500 people per day for immigration violations, more than double recent levels, the Washington Post reported Sunday, as President Donald Trump vows to conduct the “largest deportation operation” in U.

It’s a propaganda term that doesn’t describe the specific detention and removal plans of the new administration.

The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.

Three Venezuelan gang members in the country illegally were arrested by ICE this week as President Donald Trump ramps up his promised mass deportations his first week in office.

President Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan and other top officials oversaw immigration enforcement efforts in Chicago on Sunday, as ICE officials announced 956 arrests in one day on Sunday. Why it matters: The largest number of single-day arrests announced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump since he took office last Monday and declared a national emergency on the U.