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Podcast: The DSR Network
Episode: The Daily Blast: Trumpâs Anger Inside WH, Leaked to Media, Hints at a Darker Obsession
Description: Already, Donald Trump is âdisappointedâ 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 thatâs 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 Trumpâs obsession with removal numbers could divert the focus from serious criminalsâand what all this say...