Efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to arrest illegal aliens have led to the detention of more than 250,000 people since President Donald Trump took office, averaging nearly 50,000 arrests per month.

“Our arrest numbers as they stand, are about 250,000 and we want those numbers up, we want to turbo charge them,”  Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told this reporter on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.

With the administration taking over in late January, those figures point to an arrest rate of roughly 50,000 per month, which would put the administration on course to arrest roughly 2.4 million people by the end of his term. But Trump has set an ambitious target of deporting all illegal aliens from the U.S., putting the total at 21 million.

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