Trump Admin Gives ICE an Arrest Quota of 1,800 Illegal Aliens Per Day Nationwide
January 29, 2025
The Trump administration has issued a quota of 1,800 arrests per day by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nationwide.
According to a report from the New York Post, the agency’s 25 offices must make at least 75 arrests each day to meet the quota.
Since President Trump took office less than 10 days ago, ICE has made approximately 4,500 arrests.
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller explained that the quota is a “floor, not a ceiling.”
“So first of all, the numbers you cited are a floor, not a ceiling. Very importantly, they’re a floor. The goal is to arrest at least that many, but hopefully many more,” Miller said.
An ICE official who was not authorized to discuss the quota said the agency’s list of criminal suspects was sufficiently long, so officers would be able to continue prioritizing public safety and national security threats to meet quotas.
Last year, ICE told lawmakers there were about 670,000 immigrants on its caseload who had criminal convictions or faced criminal charges. Some are serving sentences in jails and prisons.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” border czar Tom Homan said the number of deportations will steadily increase.
“The aperture right now is constrained to public safety threats, national security threats as a smaller population,” Homan said. “We’re going to do the same priority base as President Trump’s promise. But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”
BATTLEGROUND GREENLAND: Denmark’s Frederiksen Gains Support of Germany’s Scholz, While Macron’s France Offers To Send Soldiers, but UK’s Starmer Refuses to Back the Island’s Defense
January 29, 2025
Denmark’s Frederiksen, France’s Macron, Germany’s Scholz and the UK’s Starmer/ AI-Generated image by Grok.
Europe is up in arms with the very serious prospect of US President Donald J. Trump forcing his way – either by force or economic warfare – into possession of the island of Greenland.
Trump’s repeated intent to take control of Greenland arises from a need for national security.
“’I think we’re going to have it’, Trump said over the weekend. ‘I don’t really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s for the protection of the free world’.”
A semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is highly strategic due to its location in the Arctic Sea and is rich in rare metals.
Nuuk, Greenland skyline at night under the northern lights (Credit: Quintinsoloviev)
“Unlike Denmark, the sprawling island of 56,000 people is not a part of the 27-country bloc but enjoys a special status with access to EU funds and freedom of movement for Greenlanders, who are considered EU citizens. Moreover, Greenland is covered by the mutual defense clause laid out by the EU treaties. Under Article 42.7, all member states have an ‘obligation of aid and assistance’ if another member state falls ‘victim of armed aggression on its territory’.
‘Borders may not be moved by force: To whom it may concern’, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday after meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. ‘The inviolability of borders is a fundamental principle of international law’, he continued, without mentioning Trump by name. ‘The principle must apply to all’.
‘It is up to Europe to define the future of our continent’, Frederiksen said.”
In Brussels, European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius said the EU is ready to defend their member state, Denmark, while top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Europeans should not underestimate their own power.
“The sense of alert spiked after details emerged of a 45-minute phone call between Trump and Frederiksen, during which Trump insisted on his desire to take over the island and Frederiksen replied Greenland was not for sale. The phone call was described as ‘icy’ and ‘aggressive’ by the New York Times. The Financial Times called it ‘fiery’ and ‘horrendous’, citing sources.”
Denmark’s Frederiksen and US’ Trump/ AI-generated image by Grok.
“Asked about calls to send EU troops to Greenland, Barrot said in an interview with France’s Sud Radio that France had “started discussing [troop deployment] with Denmark,” but that it was not “Denmark’s wish” to proceed with the idea.
[…] ‘If Denmark calls for help, France will be there’, he said. ‘The European borders are sovereign whether it’s north, south, east and west … nobody can allow themselves to mess around with our borders’.”
French soldiers are always on the brink of joining the world’s conflicts – but they never go.
The European Union foreign ministers expressed their ‘very strong support’ for Copenhagen and were reportedly ‘ready to consider’ sending troops if needed, says Barrot.
“The French foreign minister, however, said he did not believe the U.S. would invade Greenland. ‘It won’t happen, people don’t invade EU territories’, he said.”
But not everyone was happy singing war hymns in anticipation. British PM Keir Starmer refused to back Denmark in its ongoing row with Donald Trump over Greenland.
“’I’m not going to comment on issues that are not central to what I have to deal with in relation to the UK and the US relationship’, he said.”
The reaction was pure fury by Labour MP and Starmer critic Diane Abbott, who said her party’s leader is ‘terrified’ of the US President.
“’Starmer is terrified of Trump’, she wrote on social media, laying into his ‘refusal to comment on Trump’s plan to buy Greenland’.
[…] And Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has vowed: ‘Trump will not have Greenland. Greenland is Greenland. And the Greenlandic people are a people, also in the sense of international law. This is also why we have said time and again that it is ultimately Greenland that decides Greenland’s situation’.”
SELF-OWN: Loathsome Democrat Senator Mark Warner Makes an Embarrassing Mistake as He Tries to Ambush RFK Jr. with Baseless Accusations (VIDEO)
January 29, 2025
Credit: C-SPAN Screenshot
Democrat senators cannot help but step on rakes as they interrogate President Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, RFK Jr. appeared this morning to testify before the Senate Finance Committee to make his case as Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. This week, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard will sit for hearings.
Earlier, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) set out from the beginning to conduct a massive character assassination on RFK Jr., but the man at the forefront of Making America Healthy Again (along with President Trump) was more than ready and blew up his lies.
A short time later, Senator Mark Warner stepped up to the plate to bash RFK Jr. But in his effort to ambush him, Warner made an embarrassing mistake: He claimed that the HHS nominee’s presidential campaign was still active despite RFK Jr. ending it after endorsing Trump last summer.
How does a sitting U.S. Senator forget this unless they have lived in a coma for the last several months?
“I take your views seriously…But I got to tell you, I saw an email your campaign put out Monday night,” Warner began. “Your presidential campaign celebrated the freeze on new regulations is a way to protect unelected bureaucrats from undermining our health freedom.
“Then, you ask your donors to help pay for your campaign debt.”
WATCH:
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) says RFK Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign is currently fundraising…
WARNER: I saw an email your campaign put out Monday night. Your presidential campaign celebrated the freeze on new regulations is a way to protect unelected bureaucrats from… pic.twitter.com/1o3RXKDEyG
Trump Revokes Deportation Protections for Over 600,000 Venezuelan Migrants
January 29, 2025
Kristi Noem sits before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington, DC. on January 17, 2025. – CSPAN screengrab
Donald Trump has revoked deportation protections for over 600,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The revocation was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in an interview on Wednesday morning.
The order rescinds a previous order from Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, that extended the protections for a further 18 months.
“Before he left town, Mayorkas signed an order that said for 18 months, they were going to extend protection to people on Temporary Protected Status, which meant they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws for another 18 months,” Noem said. “We stopped that.”
“We are going to follow the process, evaluate all of these individuals that are in our country, including the Venezuelans that are here,” she continued.
Watch the clip below:
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has confirmed that the Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over half a million Venezuelan migrants residing in the United States. pic.twitter.com/i8KJpB65ru
As of December 2024, there were over 600,00 Venezuelan migrants benefitting from TPS, although estimates vary.
Noem added that they remain in active discussions with other countries, and “the President clearly will exercise all the authority and power that he has to make these countries take them back.”
She was also asked about whether the administration was open to using the Guantanamo Bay center in Cuba as a possible detention site.
“We’re evaluating and talking about that right now,” she responded.
”So - President's decision, but it's an asset, and we're going to continue to look at how we can use all of our assets to keep America safe."
TPS is a humanitarian program that grants temporary legal status and work authorization to nationals of designated countries experiencing ongoing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary conditions that prevent safe return.
For Venezuelans, TPS was initially designated in March 2021 as a result of the country’s political, economic, and humanitarian crisis under their socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The majority of Venezuelans residing in America are supportive of Donald Trump, citing the chaos and destruction socialism has inflicted on their homeland.
During his last administration, Trump imposed major sanctions on the Venezuelan regime and, at one point, even floated the possibility of military intervention to remove Maduro from power.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confronts ‘Chuckling’ Democrats During Hearing for Wasting Taxpayers’ Money Just to Make Americans Less Healthy
January 29, 2025
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services, boldly challenged the effectiveness of current healthcare policies before a panel of mostly skeptical Democrats.
The first hearing, orchestrated by Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, set the stage for a contentious debate over Kennedy’s controversial stance on public health initiatives, including vaccinations.
During his interaction with the committee, particularly with Cassidy, Kennedy voiced his concerns about the inefficacy and fiscal wastefulness of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, compared to private insurance options preferred by many Americans.
“Americans, by and large, do not like the Affordable Care Act. People are on it, they don’t like Medicaid, they like Medicare, and they like private insurance,” Kennedy argued, making a case for a massive overhaul of the system that prioritizes private insurance and improves care for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and veterans.
“I would ask any of the Democrats who are chuckling just now, do you think all that money, the $900 billion that we’re sending to Medicaid every year, has made Americans healthier? Do we think it’s working for anybody? Are the premiums low enough?”
WATCH:
JUST IN: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls out Democrats to their faces who were laughing at him, rips them for burning money just to make Americans less healthy.
“I would ask any of the Democrats who were chuckling just now, do you think all that money, the $900 billion that… pic.twitter.com/EvY4Hlil2G
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