DOJ Denies That Voldemort Ordered “3000 Or More” ICE Arrests Per Day (Voldemort Said So On Fox News)

Politico reports:

Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day,” the senior White House adviser told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in May.

But on Friday, the Justice Department said no such orders had ever been given. While DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth attributed the quota claim to “anonymous reports in the newspapers,” he didn’t mention that Miller — Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser — had publicly confirmed the 3,000-daily-arrest “goal” in the televised interview on Fox. The discrepancy is the latest example of a gulf between what White House advisers say in public and what the Justice Department says in court.

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