Trump began his second term last Monday with a flurry of executive actions aimed at overhauling US immigration.
His administration quickly moved to ramp up deportations, including by relaxing rules governing enforcement actions at "sensitive" locations such as schools, churches and workplaces.
Asked about the rule change, Tom Homan, who was tapped to oversee Trump's hard-line immigration agenda, said Sunday it sends a clear message.
"There's consequences of entering the country illegally. If we don't show there's consequences, you're never going to fix the border problem," Homan, who is also the former head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told ABC News's "This Week" program.
Trump has directed federal immigration officials to meet higher detention quotas, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
It said he was ordering ICE to raise the numbers of arrests from a few hundred a day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, citing people with knowledge of internal briefings.
ICE reported making a total of 593 arrests on Friday and 286 arrests on Saturday. In the 2024 federal fiscal year, it averaged around 310 per day, according to agency data.
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