GABE GUTIERREZ: Two sources familiar with the planning confirmed to NBC News ICE leadership told their agents to increase their arrests of undocumented immigrants to 1,200 to 1,500 per day nationwide. One source calling it a quota, adding agents may be penalized for not meeting it. if Across the country, Trump's deportations are sparking both fierce backlash…
BRANDON JOHNSON: There’s a goal here to stoke fear into the American people.
GUTIERREZ: And strong support.
RANDOM NEW YORKER: I’m real happy it’s happening. Very happy, actually.
GUTIERREZ: After NBC News reported half of undocumented immigrants arrested Sunday had no prior criminal record besides being in the country illegally, NBC’s Peter Alexander asking The White House:
PETER ALEXANDER: So is violent offenders no longer the predicate for these people to be deported?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you are an individual, a foreign national, who illegally enters the United States of America, you are by definition a criminal.
GUTIERREZ: The cost of all of this can be staggering. Two sources familiar with the process tell NBC News deporting one migrant runs around $10,500. Here in New York, city officials estimate it costs an average of $352 a night to house asylum seekers.
GUTIERREZ (SPEAKING SPANISH): Are you afraid?
KATHERINE ESPANCHA (SPEAKING SPANISH): Truthfully, yes.
GUTIERREZ: Katherine Espancha from Venezuela said she and her daughters had stayed at this hotel, a migrant shelter, for six months. That could be a price tag to taxpayers of more than $63,000.