Stephen Miller demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests, triggers leadership purge

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

Stephen Miller and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem held a tense meeting at ICE headquarters demanding field offices achieve 3,000 daily arrests—triple the early administration numbers. Miller threatened to fire the bottom 10% of directors monthly if quotas weren’t met. A week later, Kenneth Genalo (33-year ICE veteran) was forced to retire and Robert Hammer (20-year HSI veteran) was reassigned for failing to meet the impossible quotas. The day before the purge, agents achieved only 1,600 arrests, well short of Miller’s demands.

Key Actors

Stephen Miller Kristi Noem Kenneth Genalo Robert Hammer ICE

Tags

purges loyalty-tests impossible-quotas authoritarianism civil-service-destruction

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