The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently launched a large-scale enforcement operation codenamed "Operation At Large" under the strong push of the Trump administration. The operation mobilized over 5000 federal law enforcement personnel and tens of thousands of National Guard members, with the goal of achieving the KPI of 'detaining 3000 immigrants per day'.
Stephen Miller, the core architect of White House immigration policy, publicly pressured ICE at internal meetings to "directly deploy and arrest illegal immigrants," and even encouraged agents to wait outside temporary workers at Home Depot supermarkets or 7-11 convenience stores.
When deportation actions become a digital competition, legal procedures become hollow forms, and a crisis concerning procedural justice and human rights is spreading within the US immigration enforcement system.