REVEALED: Trump’s formidable new plan to ramp up migrant deportations… after firing ICE chief for gradual progress
The Trump administration is planning a bold new border crackdown that would let officials instantly expel migrants over fears they could spread dangerous diseases like tuberculosis.
Internal documents obtained by CBS News reveal plans to resurrect the controversial Title 42 policy – the same measure Trump used in 2020 to shut down the border during the Covid pandemic.
The bombshell move comes as Trump doubles down on his strong immigration stance.
Under the proposed policy, immigration officials would gain sweeping new powers to turn away migrants at the border without the usual asylum screening process.
The plan would leverage the Public Health Service Act to allow fast deportations, bypassing standard immigration protocols that normally let migrants claim asylum even after crossing illegally.
This would mean officials would be able to rapidly deport migrants to Mexico, their home countries, or any third nation willing to take them.
The Biden administration had kept Trump’s original Title 42 policy in place amid soaring illegal border crossings until letting it expire in 2023.
But now, Trump is reaching for an even more ambitious version of those emergency powers.
The Trump administration is planning a bold new border crackdown that would let officials instantly expel migrants over fears they could spread dangerous diseases like tuberculosis
This comes as Trump removed his top immigration official after failing to arrest enough illegal immigrants (Pictured: Former ICE Acting Director Caleb Vitello)
Border crossings have plummeted by a staggering 90 percent since Trump’s inauguration, with Border Patrol now recording fewer than 300 illegal crossings per day, according to Border Patrol chief Mike Banks.
This comes as Trump removed his top immigration official after failing to arrest enough illegal immigrants.
Caleb Vitello, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was reassigned on Friday.
It came as deportations of migrants have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official said.
Vitello, was in the role in an acting capacity and under pressure to step up enforcement after other top ICE officials were reassigned last week.
The move was said to have come after frustration within the Trump administration over the speed of deportations.
According to the Department of Homeland Security Vitello will stay at ICE in a different role.
President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday
Migrants turn themselves in to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers after crossing over a section of border wall into the U.S
A spokesman told the Wall Street Journal he was ‘actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role.’
Instead, he would be ‘overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.’
Vitello is a career official ah had worked with Trump in his first term.
He was the third senior ICE official to be removed this month.
Deportation officials have been given targets of arresting 1,500 illegal migrants a day.
That includes targets of 75 arrests by individual field offices, the wall Street Journal reported.
