Trump government wants to arrest 3,000 migrants a day

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Migrants: U.S. government tripled arrest quota

The Harvard University gets a delay in court. Several judges stop Trump’s tariffs. All developments in the news blog.

The Trump government has published a goal when arresting illegal migrants. 3,000 people are now to be taken into custody every day. That would be a tripling of the goal that was issued at the beginning of the year. This would be more than a million people a year. The new target was sent by Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, and Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS), to the responsible persons of the immigration and customs authority in a tense meeting last week.

In addition, employees should threaten the termination if they do not meet the quota. According to the Reuter press agency, up to ten percent of the authority employees should be affected in the regional offices.

The US government granted Harvard a period of 30 days to appeal against the withdrawal of admission to the student and exchange program. The U.S. Ministry of Department of the Elite University had previously prohibited further international students. Minister Kristi Noem said alleged anti -Semitism on campus and a lack of cooperation with the authorities as justification. Harvard had immediately filed a lawsuit. A federal court stopped the measure by injunction. Read more about it here.

The US economy has shrunk at the start of the year. In the first quarter, the gross domestic product (GDP) fell to the previous quarter of 0.2 percent, as the Ministry of Commerce announced on Thursday in Washington, according to a second estimate. Initially, a decline was determined by 0.3 percent. On average, economists had expected confirmation of the initial estimate. In the fourth quarter, the largest economy in the world had increased by 2.4 percent. Read more about this here.

President Donald Trump wants to nominate his former lawyer Emil Bove for the office of a federal profession. In his short message service Truth Social, he announced that he will appoint Bove as a judge for life on the 3rd US Court of Appeal in Philadelphia. Bove had represented Trump in the trial against the porn actress Stormy Daniels. It was about silence payments that Trump is said to have paid after an alleged affair with Daniels.

In the first few weeks after Trump’s return to office, Bove acted as the deputy attorney in general. In this role, he instructed the public prosecutors of the US public prosecutor’s office in Manhattan to stop a corruption procedure initiated against the New York Mayor Eric Adams and thus triggered violent criticism.

The US government wants to withdraw the visa in the United States and tighten the rules for future applicants from the People’s Republic. It was initially unclear how many students would be affected by the withdrawal of the residence permit – and to what extent there could be exceptional rules. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio just said that his authority would work with the Ministry of Homeland, “to appreciate Chinese students, including those with connections to the Communist Party or in Critical Studies”.

In addition, according to the short message from two sentences, the visa criteria for all applicants from China and Hong Kong will be revised, which will be subjected to a sharper test in the future. At the same time, Rubio also expressed – even more tightly – on the platform X.

According to the Institute of International Education (IIe), around 277,000 Chinese students were enrolled at US universities in the academic year 2023/2024. China thus put the second largest group of international students to India. Foreign students are an important source of income for many US universities-they usually pay significantly higher tuition fees than local students.

Elon Musk has ended his work for the US government. According to schedule, he had left Doge savings project, he wrote. Read more about it here.

Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs have largely been stopped by a court. The US President had rely on an emergency. Read more about the court decision here.

A federal judge in Boston instructs the authorities of the US Ministry of Hedicial Secretary to re-process the processing of applications from migrants until the decision on a class action decided, which fall under legal entry programs by the former bidue government. US district judge Indira Talwani rejected the representation of the Trump government that the termination of the programs was in the discretion of the immigration authorities.