SCOOP: ICE Agents Are Becoming Burned Out as Trump Administration Pushes for More Deportations |
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are becoming burned out, according to multiple sources.
ICE agents are “maxed out,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, and yet there is “frustration” within the administration that deportation numbers aren’t higher.
“I think it is just an enormous challenge to get 20 million people out of this country,” the official said, referring to an estimation of the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
The administration has deported over 600,000 illegal aliens since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, according to the Department of Homeland Security. An additional 1.9 million have self-deported, but the White House is not satisfied, according to sources familiar with the situation.
“ICE is under major pressure from the White House,” another senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, adding, “That’s public information. A bunch of people got transferred and fired … in ICE because they’re not hitting the numbers that they want them to hit.”
In October, The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration planned to reassign a dozen directors of ICE field offices and replace them with Customs and Border Protection or ICE officials.
While the pressure is mounting to make more arrests and conduct more deportations, a retired ICE........