Nancy Rommelmann

Protesters hold signs during an event organized by SEIU Nevada Local 1107 against immigration raids outside the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse on Monday, June 9, 2025.

OPINION: Arrest quotas are no way to make America great again

Such an inhumane obsession over the raw number of arrests — rather than a calculated push to deport “the worst of the worst” — is the sort of directive one would expect from Joseph Stalin’s NKVD during the Great Purge rather than American law enforcement agencies.

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