Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

7 hours ago


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.

Why it matters: The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump's term — and suggests the president's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

The increased pressure on agents comes as border-crossing numbers have plummeted in Trump's first four months. It signals an increasingly aggressive approach to making arrests in non-border communities nationwide.

It also comes as the Trump administration's heavy-handed tactics in rounding up unauthorized immigrants — and in some cases, legal residents and even U.S. citizens — appear to have contributed to President Trump's slipping poll numbers on immigration.

Zoom in: Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff and leading architect of President Trump's immigration policy, laid into top immigration officials during the May 21 meeting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in D.C., according to four people familiar with the meeting.

Miller demanded that field office directors and special agents in charge get arrest and deportation numbers up as much as possible, pointing to the waves of unauthorized immigrants who were able to enter the U.S. during the Biden administration.

Noem took a milder approach in pushing for more arrests, soliciting feedback from ICE leaders. Special government employee Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign aide, also spoke.

Miller's directive and tone had people leaving the meeting feeling their jobs could be in jeopardy if the new targets aren't reached, two of the sources said. A third person said Miller was trying to motivate people with a harsh tone.

It's not the first time Miller has yelled at senior DHS officials about getting arrest and deportation numbers up, sources said.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller

[Initech]

1. This is absolutely insane. Fuck Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and ICE.

All of these assholes need to see the insides of prison cells for the rest of their sorry, miserable, worthless lives.

[Ocelot II]

2. To make those quotas they'll round up anyone with a Hispanic surname

or who looks like they might be Latino. A whole lot of legal immigrants and US citizens will end up in that dragnet, with no recourse, in order to make Peewee German's quota.

[louis-t]

3. Let's see who gets fired first.

Krusti or Stephen Himmler.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

11. Oh, it'll be Noem.

Cosplay Barbies are a dime a dozen for Trump. Miller would go down with the ship, literally, for Trump.

[Seinan Sensei]

4. Lil' Stevie Miller

evidently got way too many wedgies and swirlies when he was in Jr High

[tanyev]

9. Or not nearly enough.

😒

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

15. Or . . .

He got stuffed in a locker, duct-tapped over and left there all through Spring Break.

[Bayard]

5. They've had quotas all along

They'll really go into gestapo mode now.

Every day we think they can't continue, they do something worse.

[lapfog_1]

6. 3000 a day for every day ( 365 a year )

is around 4 million people over the rest of this asshole's term.

That won't make the MAGAs happy.

They will start deporting all tourists, students, green card holders, etc to make the quota. Not to mention quite a few citizens with no due process.

[maxsolomon]

7. How many ICE agents even are there?

They need to start wholesale raids of Meat Packing plants, Construction sites, Farms, Orchards. They'll empty the nation of people doing actual work, and it WILL impact the economy if not the food supply.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Key is Stephen Miller

She's simply a mouthpiece for a weak impotent little man.

[GiqueCee]

10. Miller is...

... the embodiment of pure, malignant, irredeemable, evil. He is the driving force behind all of the blatant transgressions of law and common human decency by the ICE Gestapo, because he cannot grasp the concept of common human decency. Like shitstain Musk, empathy is an obstacle to the success of his malevolent designs. He needs to be neutralized, by whatever means necessary. He's a hazard to humanity as long as he's allowed to walk free. Let him rot in El Salvador, and see how he likes it.

[Butterflylady]

13. I hope when he leaves the White House, no one give him....

A job and he ends up destitute.....

[LymphocyteLover]

12. Monsters. They don't care who they take, how many lives they ruin. Racist evil fuckfaces.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

14. An extraordinary rendition

Of Stephen Miller is in order. The only problem is I can’t think of a black site sufficiently terrible to suit his crimes against humanity.