Abridged from source. Source in title.

[Opinion: Pay particular attention to the second paragraph. Ordinary people living their ordinary lives, causing no trouble to anyone. And yet they are “criminals”. I don’t see it.]

Tracking the Crisis: The Quiet Part

ICE steps up raids across U.S., arresting 10,000 immigrants in 5 days in national sweeps.

The Nation: 5 Jul 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in Newark NJ on June 7, 2026 (Adam Gray / Getty Images)

ICE has quietly doubled its immigrant arrest quota, arresting over 10,000 migrants in just five days in sweeping raids across the country. According to the New York Times, ICE officials were told earlier this week to ramp up their daily arrest quotas to 2,000 per day.

Among the raids being reported in local media are a mass arrest of more than 30 workers at the Scholar Crafts plant in Birmingham, Alabama; workplace raids at two laundromats in Madison, Wisconsin; courthouse immigration arrests in South Florida; a Mexican father who was arrested while driving to a soccer game in Salt Lake City, Utah; arrests of dairy farm workers in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; arrests of several workers across Montana; dozens of ICE arrests throughout Kansas City during its hosting of World Cup games; and the arrest of a 56-year-old Catholic nun on her way to Mass in McAllen, Texas. ICE agents also arrested at least three people during immigration check-ins at New York City courthouses this week in violation of federal court orders that explicitly barred such arrests.

The Supreme Court ruling this week upheld the Trump Administration’s revoking of Temporary Protected Status for asylum seekers from Haiti and Syria, affecting at least 356,000 people. Activists and immigrant communities in Springfield, Ohio, where many Haitian asylum seekers have settled, are bracing for “the mother of all ICE raids” after Stephen Miller voiced his enthusiastic support for “finally removing all those Haitian illegal immigrants” after the Supreme Court decision.

The Illinois Secretary of State also issued a statement warning of intensified ICE enforcement activity throughout the state, and advised residents to alert the state’s PlateWatch hotline if they see illegally altered license plates on cars, which has been identified as a common ICE tactic as the state has refused to issue temporary government plates to federal ICE agents.

 ICE agents reportedly showed up to a U.S. citizen’s house in Rochester, NY recently with a warning after the resident wrote a three-paragraph email to Tom Homan criticizing ICE’s mass deportation program and comparing Homan to a Nazi. Mother Jones also reported this week on a previously unpublicized letter to Congress penned by Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Maxwell Frost demanding information on a rumored database of protestors labeled “domestic terrorists” by DHS.

Are you complaining or praising these guys for enforcing the law?

You post isn't clear.

18 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Abridged from source. Source in title.

[Opinion: Pay particular attention to the second paragraph. Ordinary people living their ordinary lives, causing no trouble to anyone. And yet they are “criminals”. I don’t see it.]

Tracking the Crisis: The Quiet Part

ICE steps up raids across U.S., arresting 10,000 immigrants in 5 days in national sweeps.

The Nation: 5 Jul 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in Newark NJ on June 7, 2026 (Adam Gray / Getty Images)

ICE has quietly doubled its immigrant arrest quota, arresting over 10,000 migrants in just five days in sweeping raids across the country. According to the New York Times, ICE officials were told earlier this week to ramp up their daily arrest quotas to 2,000 per day.

Among the raids being reported in local media are a mass arrest of more than 30 workers at the Scholar Crafts plant in Birmingham, Alabama; workplace raids at two laundromats in Madison, Wisconsin; courthouse immigration arrests in South Florida; a Mexican father who was arrested while driving to a soccer game in Salt Lake City, Utah; arrests of dairy farm workers in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia; arrests of several workers across Montana; dozens of ICE arrests throughout Kansas City during its hosting of World Cup games; and the arrest of a 56-year-old Catholic nun on her way to Mass in McAllen, Texas. ICE agents also arrested at least three people during immigration check-ins at New York City courthouses this week in violation of federal court orders that explicitly barred such arrests.

The Supreme Court ruling this week upheld the Trump Administration’s revoking of Temporary Protected Status for asylum seekers from Haiti and Syria, affecting at least 356,000 people. Activists and immigrant communities in Springfield, Ohio, where many Haitian asylum seekers have settled, are bracing for “the mother of all ICE raids” after Stephen Miller voiced his enthusiastic support for “finally removing all those Haitian illegal immigrants” after the Supreme Court decision.

The Illinois Secretary of State also issued a statement warning of intensified ICE enforcement activity throughout the state, and advised residents to alert the state’s PlateWatch hotline if they see illegally altered license plates on cars, which has been identified as a common ICE tactic as the state has refused to issue temporary government plates to federal ICE agents.

 ICE agents reportedly showed up to a U.S. citizen’s house in Rochester, NY recently with a warning after the resident wrote a three-paragraph email to Tom Homan criticizing ICE’s mass deportation program and comparing Homan to a Nazi. Mother Jones also reported this week on a previously unpublicized letter to Congress penned by Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Maxwell Frost demanding information on a rumored database of protestors labeled “domestic terrorists” by DHS.

Not enough, that number needs to be doubled or tripled. Under old senile Biden, hundreds of thousands of illegal squatters entered the U.S. and inflicted assaults, murders and intimidation on the good citizens of the United States.

Biden’s illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds

https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/real-estate/bidens-illegal-immigration-surge-triggered-rise-in-home-rent-prices-fed-paper/

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

And yet they are “criminals”. I don’t see it.]

They are criminals and you choose not to see it. Understand now? And the quota in my opinion is to eradicate every single person from the USA that illegally crossed the border. Can you understand the definition of illegal?

Edited July 6Jul 6 by ArchieBunker

Can you understand they're ordinary people? If you deport everybody as you say, welcome of $5 strawberries, one-third increase in house prices, and algae-filled swimming pools.

Wait. NO strawberries! The day you see a Yanqui picking strawberries, I'll keel over from shock!

House prices going up has nothing to do with illegals. Cost of materials went way up. "Researchers found the influx of illegal immigrants boosted employment with little measurable effect on wages but significantly increased housing demand." I read that as illegals were working, buying houses and renting apartments. Care to differ?

"The economists estimate unauthorized immigrant worker flows accounted for about 30% of employment growth, roughly 30% of home-price growth, and about 20% of rent growth in the average metropolitan area between March 2021 and March 2024."

Fuhgeddabout Biden. How about Obama's 1M deportations? 

6 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Can you understand they're ordinary people? If you deport everybody as you say, welcome of $5 strawberries, one-third increase in house prices, and algae-filled swimming pools.

Wait. NO strawberries! The day you see a Yanqui picking strawberries, I'll keel over from shock!

House prices going up has nothing to do with illegals. Cost of materials went way up. "Researchers found the influx of illegal immigrants boosted employment with little measurable effect on wages but significantly increased housing demand." I read that as illegals were working, buying houses and renting apartments. Care to differ?

"The economists estimate unauthorized immigrant worker flows accounted for about 30% of employment growth, roughly 30% of home-price growth, and about 20% of rent growth in the average metropolitan area between March 2021 and March 2024."

Fuhgeddabout Biden. How about Obama's 1M deportations? 

Do you live in Thailand? And if so do you agree with their zero tolerance policies for illegal immigration? And if you do agree with their policies then why should it be different for the United States? Every civilized country have strict immigration laws and enforce them. Your delusional beliefs stem from watching and reading too much of the lunatic liberal media propaganda that has gotten you well influenced. May I mind you that your thoughts on this are definitely not organic.

If there's a quota it means they're not prioritizing dangerous criminals but grabbing anyone they can to meet the quota.

I live in Thailand and had no sympathy for these illegals, since I'm subject to the same standards, but these ICE thugs changed my mind.

16 minutes ago, Real Name Hidden said:

I live in Thailand and had no sympathy for these illegals, since I'm subject to the same standards, but these ICE thugs changed my mind

So you now favor unchecked illegal immigration to Thailand?

3 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

"The economists estimate unauthorized immigrant worker flows accounted for about 30% of employment growth, roughly 30% of home-price growth, and about 20% of rent growth in the average metropolitan area between March 2021 and March 2024."

Joe Biden and the Dems lowered the cost of living for all U.S. citizens with their immigration policies.

4 hours ago, TedG said:

So you now favor unchecked illegal immigration to Thailand?

Thailanguage courses

Except Chinese. Guess I'm just a racist.

8 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

House prices going up has nothing to do with illegals

2 minutes later.......

8 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

"The economists estimate unauthorized immigrant worker flows accounted for about 30% of employment growth, roughly 30% of home-price growth

17 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Can you understand they're ordinary people? If you deport everybody as you say, welcome of $5 strawberries, one-third increase in house prices, and algae-filled swimming pools.

I doubt whether many of the MAGA faithful eat straw berries ( unless they are smothered in sugar and processed into some sort of fast food gloop), they are not in the market for buying houses, and Algae-filled pools are rather patriotic at the moment!

Edited July 7Jul 7 by JAG

There is a very definitive line here....are you in a Country Legally or not? Myriad of confusing situations, however, just do the litmus test......in the Country legally or not. Same as in Thailand and many other Countries.

11 hours ago, blaze master said:

2 minutes later.......

As I said, immigrants buying houses and renting apartments. Follow the bouncing ball!

1 hour ago, Zimar said:

There is a very definitive line here....are you in a Country Legally or not? Myriad of confusing situations, however, just do the litmus test......in the Country legally or not. Same as in Thailand and many other Countries.

And some call these folks <criminals> when this is their only crime. Everybody's looking for a better life.

5 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

As I said, immigrants buying houses and renting apartments. Follow the bouncing ball!

You dont read too well do you. Its not immigrants its illegal immigrants.

But you knew that.

The laxism of Europe with migrants is going to end up one day in having europeans fed up and voting for political parties who will have ICE type enforcement. Trump, ICE...all this comes from years of absurd political governance that leads to people getting fed up and voting for extremists.