Day 507

Trump Signs $70 Billion Secure America Act, ICE Arrests Surge to 10,000 in Five Days Amid Reported Quota

On June 10, 2026, Trump signed the 'Secure America Act,' providing approximately $69.5 billion for ICE and CBP through 2029 -- including roughly $38 billion for ICE and $350 million earmarked specifically for arrests in 'sanctuary jurisdictions' -- after the bill passed the House 214-212 and the Senate 52-47 following a prolonged Democratic standoff. Within weeks, ICE arrested more than 10,000 people nationwide in a five-day span in late June, roughly doubling the agency's prior daily pace, after leadership ordered 80% of officers onto arrest operations seven days a week. Two senior ICE enforcement officials, Russell Holt and Peter Berg, were reassigned amid reported internal frustration that arrest numbers weren't rising fast enough, and multiple outlets reported an agency-wide daily arrest quota of roughly 3,000 arrests aimed at 1 million annually -- a quota government counsel denies is official policy.