# ICE leadership tells agents to raise daily immigration arrests by 1,000

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- CNN, 2026-10-08 11:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/ice-immigration-arrests?Date=20261008&Profile=CNN

> Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders verbally directed agents nationwide to make 1,000 more immigration arrests each day, returning to a previous target of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the instruction.