ICE enforcement quotas violate Fourth Amendment as agents raid hospitals

Trump's administration set arrest quotas of 3,000 people daily and launched massive workplace raids, arresting over 1,270 workers in the first 100 days of the presidency

ICE agents must meet specific arrest targets regardless of individual circumstances or community safety priorities, transforming immigration enforcement into a numbers-driven deportation machine

Workplace raids target workers at meatpacking plants, construction sites, and agricultural facilities while employers who illegally hired undocumented workers typically receive only administrative fines

Local police departments lose community trust when forced into immigration enforcement, as immigrant communities stop reporting crimes, serving as witnesses, or cooperating with investigations

Mass arrests overwhelm an already strained immigration court system handling 1.5 million pending cases, with detainees waiting months or years for hearings in private detention facilities

ICE targets workers where violations are visible and easy to prosecute while employers face minimal consequences, creating perverse incentives for continued labor exploitation

The quota system removes human judgment from immigration decisions, treating deportation like manufacturing with productivity metrics rather than public policy considerations