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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Memo Reveals Plan to Speed Up Deportations

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A memo has revealed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plan to speed up deportations. This includes operations to expand and create new detention centers, and streamline the process.

Meanwhile, the recent surge of border agents in Minnesota is being drawn down, and border czar Tom Homan says he believes it’s still necessary to “flood the zone” in other sanctuary cities.

We’ll discuss these topics and others in this episode of Crossroads.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Crossroads. A memo has revealed an ice plan to speed up deportations. And guess what?

0:06.1

This includes operations to re-engineer detention centers and also streamline the whole process.

0:12.8

Also, meanwhile, the recent surge of border agents in Minnesota, it's kind of being drawn up as a model.

0:19.9

They're removing a lot of the forces there. They're drawing that

0:22.6

down. Borders are Tom Holman says he believes it is necessary now to quote unquote flood the zone in

0:30.4

other sanctuary cities. And another news, President Trump just got rid of a key policy that,

0:34.8

guess what, was the foundation of climate policies. We talked about these topics and a lot more today and also answering questions.

0:42.3

So make sure to hit the like button, leave a comment in the chat. Let's get started.

0:46.3

All right, first off, a memo has revealed a nice plan to speed up deportations.

0:51.3

And guess what?

0:52.3

This includes operations to re-engineer detention centers and

0:56.1

streamline the whole thing. Brightbart says this. An internal immigration and customs enforcement

1:02.4

memo proposes a sweeping detention re-engineering initiative aimed at fixing the system's most

1:10.2

chronic failures, overcrowded facilities,

1:13.1

slow transfers, and deportation backlogs that it says allow criminal aliens to cycle repeatedly

1:19.3

through American communities because what happens, they get arrested, they get let out,

1:25.7

they don't get handed over to ice, they go back into the system,

1:29.0

and it repeats, get repeat offenders, repeat criminals, and they never get deported, and oftentimes

1:34.3

even get their crimes lowered by judges who don't want them being deported. Now it says this,

1:40.8

the proposal backed by frontline ICE personnel and major law enforcement groups

1:45.0

would expand detention capacity. This is actually a big deal, by the way. I know this because

1:50.5

I've talked to ICE agents. I've talked to Border Patrol agents. One of the biggest problems they have

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