Trump administration planning ICE shakeup after failing to meet 3,000 arrests: report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "So CBP will do it.
60% : " The Trump administration's decision to swap out ICE field directors with replacements from Customs and Border Patrol was inspired by the president's top aides being impressed by the latter's "more aggressive tactics to secure arrests," NBC reports, "such as rappelling into apartment buildings from Black Hawk helicopters and jumping out of rental trucks in Home Depot parking lots." "The mentality is CBP does what they're told, and the administration thinks ICE isn't getting the job done," a DHS official told NBC.
51% : Given that there are only 25 ICE field offices across the U.S., the substitutions would mean almost half of its leadership being benched.
51% : The reported dissatisfaction with ICE comes after it was revealed that the agency had spent $70 million on weapons in the first nine months of Trump's second term, a 700 percent increase on the amount spent in Joe Biden's final year in office, as its role has dramatically increased to help deliver the "largest mass deportation program in history" as the president promised on the campaign trail.
51% : The 20,000-strong agency has also been the subject of a major recruitment drive, with Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin recently claiming ICE had received "more than 175,000 applications" to join its ranks as a result of an ad blitz on platforms like Spotify, X, Meta, YouTube, and LinkedIn, with "more than 18,000 tentative job offers" issued.
48% : " The Independent has contacted ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
48% : The list of replacements, who have not been named, was reportedly drawn up by DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski and CBP chief Greg Bovino, who has overseen his agents' operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.
41% : ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing miserably.
36% : " The network reports that the White House has signed off on a list of at least a dozen directors of ICE field offices it intends to remove imminently, half of whom would be replaced by CBP personnel.
26% : The development came as California Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal took to X to announce the latest death of a detainee in ICE custody, placing further pressure on the much-criticized immigration enforcement agency.
21% : The administration has grown increasingly frustrated with ICE's failure to meet White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's target of 3,000 arrests of undocumented migrants per day, The New York Times reports.
8% : Trump administration dissatisfied with failure to meet arrest rate targets and impressed with 'more aggressive' tactics of CBP troops, according to reports President Donald Trump's administration is planning to replace almost half of its regional ICE directors with their Border Patrol counterparts as part of a major shake up of the leadership of its illegal immigration crackdown, according to reports.

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