President Donald Trump is allegedly displeased with his top immigration officials despite them having reportedly already arrested 11,000 illegal aliens since Inauguration Day.
NBC News, a rabidly left-wing outlet, claimed via anonymous sources on Friday that Trump “has expressed anger that the amount of people deported in the first weeks of his administration is not higher.”
“It’s driving him nuts they’re not deporting more people,” one of the network’s anonymous sources said.
This alleged anger has, according to the sources, been relayed to Trump’s top immigration officials, including border czar Tom Homan, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Caleb Vitello.
Though according to the sources, Homan is equally “unhappy” and has “made his unhappiness known.”
JUST IN: President Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan says he is not satisfied with the current amount of deportations.
“We need more deportations. A lot more deportations.” pic.twitter.com/M62FMJgBuE
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) January 29, 2025
“A source familiar with internal conversations at ICE said Homan has a daily conference call with ICE agents in which he has been known to express his frustration with ICE numbers,” NBC News notes.
In a statement, the White House for its part downplayed the report by comparing the current arrest rate to that under the Biden administration.
“After four years of the Biden administration’s outright incompetence and negligence, the Trump administration has re-established a no-nonsense enforcement of and respect for the immigration laws of the United States,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said.
“Hundreds of violent, predatory, and gang-affiliated criminal illegal aliens have already been rounded up and deported by ICE since President Trump took office — and the Trump administration is aligned on securing our borders and ensuring that mass deportations are conducted quickly and effectively to put Americans and America First,” he added.
It was a fair point. According to the New York Post, ICE arrested a whopping 11,000 illegal aliens during Trump’s first 18 days in office. This is notable because it’s “already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden.”
The only problem is that the quick expansion in arrests has led to a shortage in detainment space. The good news is ICE is set to open up four additional detention facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons.
It helps, too, that border crossings have dropped to record-low numbers.
I mean these are just crazy low numbers. Unheard of to see this. Think about the thousands you saw pouring in daily in our live shots in Eagle Pass & RGV in recent years.
They had 46 and 23 yesterday.
I would have trouble finding illegal aliens if I went down there right now. https://t.co/EBUD4zNkYc
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 7, 2025
There’s also the money problem. While ICE has enough money to detain 41,500 illegals, it’s already “burning well over that to the tune of several hundred million dollars,” according to a source within ICE.
All this comes roughly a week after Trump announced that he intends to hold “criminal aliens” at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, sparking outrage from some foreign leaders and of course the American left.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” he said at a news briefing. “Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later confirmed to CNN that Guantanamo would only be used to house “the worst of the worst.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also offered confirmation, writing in a tweet that Guantanamo will be used for “high-priority criminal aliens.”
“The @DeptofDefense — in conjunction with @DHSgov — will immediately expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (‘Gitmo’) to Full Capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens we have deported,” he tweeted.
He went on to add that this isn’t new — that former presidents, namely Bill Clinton, have also used Guantanamo to house illegal aliens.
Look:
The @DeptofDefense — in conjunction with @DHSgov — will immediately expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (“Gitmo”) to Full Capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens we have deported.
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 30, 2025
Gitmo has been used for DECADES, including under Democrat presidents like Bill Clinton, to temporarily house migrants. This is not the detention facilities (where I served) for Al Qaeda; this is using specific facilities for migrants/illegals on other parts of the naval station.
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 30, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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