President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan wants ICE agents to accelerate arrest even more after the agency received a giant budget boost for deportations with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Homan on Monday called for taking at least 7,000 illegal immigrants off the streets per day — more than double the current quota.
That figure would amount to 1.2 million arrests if agents hit their quota every day for the rest of the year.
“And for those that say 3,000 a day is too much, I want to remind them, do the math, we have to arrest 7,000 every single day for the remainder of this administration just to catch the ones Biden released into the nation,” Homan told reporters Monday outside the White House.
Trump signed the nearly 900-page bill into law on July 4, opening the door for ICE to hire 10,000 new officers and double the capacity to detain illegal immigrants to 100,000 beds.
The law will “turbocharge” Trump’s deportation effort, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLauglin told The Post last week.
The Department of Homeland Security will now have $165 billion to fund its border security efforts and beef up ICE enforcement.
“This $165 billion in funding will help the Department of Homeland Security and our brave law enforcement further deliver on President Trump’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
White House adviser Stephen Miller recently pushed ICE to make 3,000 arrests per day, which has filled detention centers to the brim.
The Trump administration originally gave ICE a quota of 1,800 arrests a day in January and increased the expectations in May.
Some 11.5 million people crossed into the US illegally during the Biden administration, with most released briefly detained and released. It’s the biggest flood of immigrants in American’s history, eclipsing even the days of Ellis Island.
The Trump administration arrested 113,000 migrants as of the end of March, The Post previously reported.
Miller and Homan have previously expressed frustration at the pace of arrests.
