As ICE descends on my old hometown of New Orleans I got to wondering about the numbers. The math seems pretty simple. ICE aims at 3,000 arrests per month. There are 21,000 ICE agents. Math is easy, it’s 1/7 arrests per month per agent, or on arrest every seven months per agent. Less than two a year per agent.. Really? Somebody check my math. This can’t be right.

Update:  thanks to my friend Paul for correcting my numbers.  It’s a goal of 3000 arrests per day, not per month.  This is 1/7 of an arrest per agent per day, not per month.  Or one per week per agent.  Better, but still a very low number IMO.