The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.

Following the first wave of deportations under the Trump administration last week, newly-appointed border czar Tom Homan spoke to the administration's strategy, saying "if you're in the country illegally,

Tom Homan, who was also appointed as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Trump’s last administration, said schools were not out of bounds for officers as he claimed many criminal gang members were teenagers.