ICE officials ‘threatened' over low deportation numbers
Immigration officers were 'eviscerated' for not deporting illegal migrants fast enough during a heated meeting with senior Trump administration officials in Washington.
Stephen Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff and a key architect of Donald Trump's immigration policy, left 50 senior officers feeling their jobs were at risk, according to the Washington Examiner.
A string of officials described Mr Miller's fury.
'Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. 'You guys aren't doing a good job. You're horrible leaders.' He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down,' said an official who spoke with those in the room during the meeting.
'Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. 'Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?''
There is growing tension that Mr Trump's mass deportations is not proceeding quickly enough.
He was elected on a promise to enact the biggest deportation operation in history and set a target of removing one million people each year.
However, with fewer migrants presenting themselves at the border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers face the more complicated prospect of identifying illegal immigrants already in the country.
Data released so far suggest the administration is on course to deport about half a million people this year, according to analysis by the Migration Policy Institute. That is fewer than the 685,000 deported by Joe Biden during his final year in office.
Collapsing morale within ICE
Against that background, dozens of top ICE officers were ordered to attend an emergency meeting in Washington DC, on May 20.
Axios reported that Mr Miller and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, ordered them to adopt a target of arresting 3,000 people a day.
Insiders said the result was collapsing morale within ICE.
'They've been threatened, told they're watching their emails and texts and Signals,' the first official said. 'That's what is horrible about things right now. It's a fearful environment.'
An administration spokesmen said the reporting mischaracterised the meeting.
'Stephen Miller did not say many of the things you state,' said Laszlo Baksay, ICE deputy assistant director of media affairs.
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