February 8, 202
As President Donald Trump works his way through the federal government by way of executive order he seeks to keep his promise of a sweeping mass deportation of illegal migrants across the country. Starting in larger population areas like New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, the administration shifted it’s focus to Colorado, where infamously a Venezuelan gang took over an apartment building in Aurora. The administration’s plan is to raid three cities per week, and reports have shown that leadership within ICE have been instructed to ramp up operations to meet a quota of 1,200-1,500 arrests per day. Between January 23-29 they were averaging 753 arrests per day, compared to 282 per day under Biden as of September 2024. According to Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, there is no quota but only the goal to arrest as many criminal migrants as possible. In collaboration with other federal agencies like the FDA and ATF, arrest numbers have not been as high as Donald Trump had touted, arresting roughly 1,200 people on January 26 with only 52% being criminal arrests, according to an NBC News Report. The following day ICE claimed they made 1,179 arrests. Officials have not disclosed numbers differentiating between migrants in custody with criminal histories and those without, causing wide spread speculation of dishonest and prejudiced raids as the administration continues it’s media blitz of it’s mass deportation operations in the face of rising protests across the country.
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Hundreds gathered at the Texas State Capitol to protests the on going ICE raids happening in the Lone Star state and across the country. Protesters marched through downtown Austin to the J.J. Pickle Federal Building where at least 26 people were being held by ICE in a holding facility in the basement of the federal building that normally houses offices for ICE, Homeland Security, and the district office of Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett. ICE raids continue to splurge in Texas as Governor Greg Abbott fully employs “enhanced targeted operations” as part of the overall deportation efforts across the country.
