Immigration Blog

Former Dallas ICE Chief Counsel, and current DMCA partner, immigration attorney Paul Hunker interviewed by NBC DFW.

Retired ICE leaders tell NBC 5 Investigates the agency is not equipped to arrest, detain and deport the millions of people the Trump administration has pledged to remove

From the article:

The White House said ICE made about 8,000 arrests nationwide in the first two weeks of the administration. The largest single-day number of arrests was about 1,100.

Even if ICE could sustain that peak number every day for four years, it would total a little more than 1.5 million arrests—far short of 13 million.

“There’s just a limited number of officers that ICE has to go out and arrest people,” said Paul Hunker, who served as chief legal counsel at ICE in Dallas, working closely on enforcement operations.

Hunker, who now practices immigration law in Dallas, said ICE will need a lot of help from other federal law enforcement agencies to increase arrests.

In the meantime, he believes ICE will continue to publicize images of arrests to give the public the impression that ICE is everywhere.

“The administration will do their shock-and-awe type of operations to try to send a signal that this is happening more broadly than it actually is happening, to scare people,” said Hunker.

Watch the full story here: Former ICE director says deporting 13 million ‘not going to happen’

Paul Hunker is accepting new clients at DMCA’s Dallas Fort Worth office. You can schedule an appointment with him here: DMCA, LLP