The National Security Department says that its immigrant detention centers have capacity, which houses about 47,600 people.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday in the background, DHS officials said they are working with the Marshals service, the Department of Defense and the Federal Prison Office to increase the space of the bed, since they request the Congress more funds.
The arrested people are also being released from the case -by -case -by -case -by -wire, using ICE alternatives to the arrest of the program based on medical or humanitarian concerns, they said.
The senior DHS and ICE officials also provided new arrest data that cataloged Trump’s first 50 days in office. According to DHS data, from January 20 to March 10, 2025 ICE has arrested 32,809 people.
According to officials, of them, 14,111 were criminals convicted, 9,980 have pending criminal charges and 8,718 only have immigration -related violations.
“We hope that these ice arrests and the elimination numbers only increase as we unleash an agency that has had your hands bound behind it during the last four years,” said ICE Todd Lyons’s interim director. “These ice application operations are not only eliminating criminals from US communities, but are also discouraging people who come to our country illegally.”
In terms of those with alleged ties with criminal organizations that use the same period of time, the authorities said ICE had arrested 1,155 alleged gang members and 39 known or presumed terrorists.
DHS did not say in the call how many people have been deported under the new Trump administration.
On Monday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration had deported less people in February than the Biden administration during the same month of the previous year, according to the data obtained by NBC News.
Since he was appointed Border Tsar of the White House, Tom Homan has sought the cooperation of local and state governments to help ice in arrests related to immigration. On Wednesday, Homan visited legislators in Albany, New York, and criticized the so -called sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with ICE.
“So the sanctuary cities are going to obtain exactly what they do not want, more agents in the community and more collateral arrests, because it has forced us to the community, because it has not been able to leave us in jail,” said Homan.
