NewsNation Prime: 1.5M undocumented migrants with final orders of removal: Fmr. ICE staffer

Despite Trump’s shift on deportation policy, the ICE daily target of 3,000 arrests remains the same. It’s unclear how the agency will hit those numbers with this new announcement. Sources tell NewsNation there aren’t enough criminal migrants to meet that aggressive target.

Jason Houser, a former ICE chief of staff in the Biden administration, said the Trump administration’s change in strategy is the result of getting pushback from the business community and the agriculture industry.

“It’s clearly a very large pivot, very quickly, on the short period of time the administration has been in the White House,” he told “NewsNation Prime” Sunday. “Clearly, the sort of policies of mass arrests, targeting non-criminals, shifting to quotas arrests, is something that’s not in the community’s interest, it’s not in the interest of our economy, and it’s not in the interest of public safety.”

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