Immigration officials have quietly ramped up the number of arrests in the past several days, apprehending 10,000 people whom they say are in the country illegally in the past five days. According to The New York Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaders instructed officials to focus more of their efforts on immigrants they want to deport. “Over the weekend, ICE agents across the country were ‘called into work on a mandatory 100% manpower work week surge effort,’ a source said, adding that the ‘huge effort’ was ‘pushed super last minute, destroying officers’ personal lives in the meantime,'” The Daily Wire immigration reporter Jennie Taer said. “The all-gas, no-brakes approach is ‘exhausting,’ another agency source said. This comes as the New York Times reports that ICE made more than 10,000 arrests during a recent five-day period. The goal of the new effort is to sustain 2,000 arrests per day, up from 1,000 earlier this year,” she continued. NEW: The White House is renewing pressure on ICE to turbocharge arrests, multiple ICE sources tell @realDailyWire. Over the weekend, ICE agents across the country were “called into work on a mandatory 100% manpower work week surge effort,” a source said, adding that the “huge… — Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) July 2, 2026 More from The New York Times: The surge has occurred without the fanfare of highly visible operations last year, in which officials announced their intentions ahead of time to target cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, and send officers pouring into the streets. Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, pledged to mount a quieter enforcement campaign following the chaos of a monthlong operation in Minnesota, where federal officers killed two U.S. citizens. The rise in arrests suggests that President Trump is determined to meet his pledge of mass deportations, a goal that is popular among his conservative supporters but that has fueled a political backlash amid the administration’s heavy-handed tactics. The Trump administration has promised more aggressive actions, particularly after the Supreme Court in recent days expanded the president’s power to set federal immigration policy, but undercut his effort to eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and visitors. “Our message is clear: If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you and we will deport you,” Lauren Bis, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in a statement. “Of course, the White House works with their partners at different agencies to ensure the President’s agenda is being enacted. At the same time, the Secure America Act guaranteed funding for 3 years, hiring has continued to increase, the immigration courts are more streamlined, and ICE is operating more efficiently every day,” an official said, according to The Daily Wire. “We do have a different leadership style. We’re still enforcing immigration laws, we’re still deporting illegals that shouldn’t be here, we’re still going after the worst of the worst, but we’re doing it in a more quiet way because my goal in six months is to not have DHS on the lead story everyday,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in April. Watch below: Markwayne Mullin says his leadership style at DHS entails doing deportations "in a more quiet way." pic.twitter.com/GZ5oe82hjg — Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) April 16, 2026 The Daily Wire shared further: During a press conference Wednesday, Mullin announced that arrests and deportations are surging. “We’re seeing our arrest numbers come up, we’re seeing our deportation numbers continue to increase,” Mullin said. “Right now, we’re deporting on average over 3,000 individuals, actually the average has been for several weeks now over 3,200 individuals a day, 70% of those individuals we’re deporting have outstanding criminal charges on them or they’ve already been charged with a felony.” “So when we go after the worst of the worst, which is exactly what we’re doing, we’re saving lives,” Mullin said. Meanwhile, ICE’s detention population increased by 4,000 detainees with the facilities holding more than 63,000 illegal immigrants as of Tuesday, The New York Times reported. ICE leadership has applauded agency personnel for supporting the latest effort. “I want to personally thank each of you for your extraordinary efforts this past weekend,” Marcos Charles, Executive Associate Director of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, wrote this week in an email to agency staff, according to The New York Times. “Through your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our mission, enforcement and removal operations achieved remarkable operational results,” Charles wrote. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE The post Arrests By ICE Agents Surge – Significant Increase In Past 5 Days appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.