A US citizen in Minnesota was temporarily detained by Border Patrol agents who questioned his citizenship because of his accent, raising concerns about profiling and enforcement practices amid broader federal immigration operations.
In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
Could we get three thousand lily-white rich people to volunteer to get arrested and released every day so ICE can leave everybody else alone for a minute?
“Flood the zone” is a political strategy in which a political figure aims to gain media attention, disorient opponents and distract the public from undesirable reports by rapidly forwarding large volumes of newsworthy information to the media.[1][2][3][4] The strategy has been attributed to U.S. president Donald Trump’s former chief political strategist Steve Bannon.[4][5][6]
I hate being that guy, but source?
I haven’t seen anything like that.
Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests
Could we get three thousand lily-white rich people to volunteer to get arrested and released every day so ICE can leave everybody else alone for a minute?
Thanks. I didn’t see that.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/trump-ice-immigration-arrests-deportations
https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/report-ice-directed-to-increase-arrests-to-meet-daily-quotas/
Trump campaign on this during the election. You don’t remember?
I feel like I’ve had a shotgun of bullshit being sprayed for the last year. It is hard to remember all of the vile shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
Shadow president Miller
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/09/16/stephen-millers-quota-likely-drove-korean-arrests-in-immigration-raid/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/white-house-aide-driving-trumps-aggressive-immigration-agenda-2025-07-11/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/03/white-house-doj-immigration-quota-mismatch-00490406
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-ice-arrest-quota
https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/report-ice-directed-to-increase-arrests-to-meet-daily-quotas/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_in_the_second_Trump_administration
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-deportation-quota-ice-immigration-2108379
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/11/trump-immigration-ice-crackdown-employers/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/stephen-miller-is-escalating-his-immigration-crackdown-with-a-new-travel-ban?srsltid=AfmBOopA-EyeTmQzES8kIuhVFKlwAa6vdxutX5BKzssXqxuMZzE8TzfU
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrests-data-stephen-miller-b2878376.html
Thanks! It doesn’t surprise me in the least.
I havent seen proof of a quota. I did see the skull badges for kidnappers though…
Oh yeah. I saw their little trophies. Which in itself is fucked up
I think those were from a joint taskforce exercise, not being handed out for quotas.