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José Olivares in New York

Trump administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda

Detained people are loaded into a van
Plainclothes Ice agents load people detained at the Miami immigration court into a van on 21 May. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

The Trump administration has set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year.

The new target, tripling arrest figures from earlier this year, was delivered to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, and Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, in a strained meeting last week.

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