The White House is walking back their claims that Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) had a quota of 3,000 immigrants arrested per day, report Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico.

After federal judges asked for details on the high daily quota as a part of a lawsuit alleging that the pressure to meet this goal led to intense ICE raids in Los Angeles and other areas, lawyers for the Department of Justice denied the existence of "any numerical quota or target for arrests."

The inconsistency highlights a constant discrepancy between the public messaging of White House advisers and the legal arguments presented by the Justice Department, Politico notes.

Separately, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Nepal, reports Zach Montague of the The New York Times.

Meanwhile, last week, the administration told DACA recipients that they are “not automatically protected from deportation” and encouraged them to self-deport, reports Andrew Stanton of Newsweek.

The statement by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin is a departure from President Trump’s repeated expressions of interest in a solution for DACA recipients, Stanton notes.

In December, Trump told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he wanted to find a way for DACA recipients to stay in the United States.

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