How Trump is remaking one agency to aid his deportation push The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.

USCIS leadership reengineers the agency into an enforcement arm, collapsing legal immigration pathways and reshaping federal authority. #USCIS #ImmigrationPolicy #AdministrativeSabotage #DeportationInfrastructure #NPR

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests Trump's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

Trump officials institutionalized a 3,000-a-day ICE arrest quota, embedding mass deportation as core enforcement policy, without legal process or oversight.
#DHS #ICE #DeportationInfrastructure #InstitutionalAccountability #AuthoritarianEnforcement #Axios

Surge of ICE agreements with local police aim to increase deportations, but many police forces have found they undermine public safety History shows that building the trust of immigrants is an effective tactic in combating local crime and making entire communities safer.

ICE’s 287(g) agreements embed deportation into local institutions, creating enforcement infrastructure that outlasts elections and normalizes mass removal.
#DHS #ICE #287g #ImmigrationPolicy #InstitutionalAccountability #DeportationInfrastructure #TheConversation

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings' ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations

On 8 April 2025, ICE’s acting director proposed an Amazon-style mass deportation model—“like Prime, but with human beings”—marking a shift to industrialized repression. #DeportationInfrastructure #Project2025 #PrivatizedRepression #SurveillanceState