The Trump administration is making headway on the key first step towards mass deportations: • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have soared since the start of President Trump's second term, according to data released this week.

Why it matters: This year's arrest pace is well short of the administration's goal of 3,000 a day as it promises to deport millions of people. But President Trump has moved the numbers way up compared to former President Biden. • ICE's main unit for removing immigration law violators, Enforcement and Removal Operations, has been arresting roughly 1,100 people per day in recent weeks, according to government data released via a Freedom of Information Act request from the Deportation Data Project. • ICE's daily arrest average between Jan. 20 and

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