The Daily Blast: Trump’s Anger Inside WH, Leaked to Media, Hints at a Darker Obsession

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Already, Donald Trump is “disappointed” about the pace of deportations under his presidency, The Washington Post reports. Trump officials have instructed ICE to aggressively ramp up the daily arrests to assuage his anger, even setting quotas and threatening discipline on officials who fail to meet them. But that’s not all: The pressure to meet those quotas also makes it more likely that ICE officials will sweep in noncriminal undocumented immigrants. We talked to Deborah Fleischacker, a former senior Homeland Security official, about why Trump’s obsession with removal numbers could divert the focus from serious criminals—and what all this says about the absurdity of White House/MAGA cult propaganda extolling Trump’s “strength” in combating the migrant “invasion.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.9	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:48.2	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Donald Trump is already unhappy about the pace of deportations under his presidency.
1:01.1	The Washington Post reports that Trump officials have instructed ICE to aggressively ramp up the number of daily arrests to make Trump happy,
1:09.6	even setting quotas and threatening to discipline those who
1:12.5	fall short of them. But something else in this report caught our eye. The pressure to meet those
1:17.7	quotas will make it more likely that ICE officials sweep in non-criminal immigrants. Which reveals
1:23.6	the absurdity of all the Trump White House propaganda on deportations we've been seeing,
1:28.8	they'll now have to target less dangerous offenders to keep up appearances that Trump is strong and
1:34.3	powerful. Today we have a great guest to demystify all this. Deborah Fleshaker, a former senior
1:41.1	official at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for many years, including
1:45.1	during the first Trump administration. Deborah, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me.
1:49.9	I'm happy to be here. So this Washington Post report says that officials with ICE have been
1:54.4	informed by Trump officials to arrest at least 1,200 to 1,500 people per day because Trump is
2:00.6	disappointed with his mass deportations so
2:02.8	far. Trump people are denying this, but the bottom line is they really are asking for a very
2:08.7	large ramped-up deportation total, even if they're not asking for exact quotas. Can you put this in
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