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The morale is extremely high right now that they're finally able to do their job; they're allowed to follow the law as it's written."
John Fabbricatore, a retired ICE field office director in Colorado, told Newsweek ICE daily arrests have risen since Trump reentered the White House. Once ICE gets their feet under them after having not really enforced the law for the last four years, I think that the numbers will be better,
Fabbricatore, a Republican, said He's done a lot of things right. I worked for Tom in the past; he used to be my boss. He's a cop's cop,
Of course, the…criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE,
This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens—including murders and rapists—who have illegally come into our country. Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement and instead trusts them to use common sense."
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman said in a statement We're dealing with a gang that's a little bit more entrenched. But I think President Trump has an iron will, and he wants to make sure that this gang is rooted out, and we're going to do that,
Absolutely, I think that they can because we're serious about enforcing the law now."
John Fabbricatore, a retired ICE field office director in Colorado and traveling fellow at the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, told Newsweek We're serious about how we're going to treat these terrorist organizations and these gangs."
They're looking to disrupt gang operations and possibly uncover terrorist plots,
The idea of one million to two million [deportations] a year is ... aspirational. It’s probably unrealistic, given the resources that are available to do it,
says Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a predecessor agency to Ice, who is now at the Migration Policy Institute think-tank In my opinion, it’s going to be impossible for them to achieve the goal that they set out – which is really getting rid of all the illegal immigrants in the United States,
says David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute think-tank There is no way ... they have the staff, the money and the resources and the legal authority to turn and start doing immigration enforcement [and] immigration detention,
says Jason Houser, a former Ice chief of staff It’s not like you just flip a switch and just immediately start rounding people up and sending them to the border,
says John Torres, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) acting director during the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations The Trump administration has already been successful in instilling fear in immigrant communities and making it more difficult ... to do simple things like take their children to school, access medical care, pray in houses of worship,
says Elora Mukherjee, professor at Columbia Law School It’s an extraordinarily important piece of this puzzle, and dealing with capacity issues in detention will be a challenge,
says Bier at the Cato Institute The effect of this change will be to enhance national security and public safety – while reducing government costs – by facilitating prompt immigration determinations,
The Trump administration wants to use this illegal policy to fuel its mass deportation agenda and rip communities apart,
Anand Balakrishnan, an ACLU lawyer leading the case, said in a statement But that is a relatively small number,
says Stephen Yale-Loehr, retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want – more agents in the communities, more people arrested, more collaterals arrested,
he told Fox News on Wednesday We could go tomorrow and incrementally staff up,
says chief executive Damon Hininger
