Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have not been directed to meet a daily quota for arrests or deportations, according to a court filing by a Trump administration attorney.

In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Department of Justice attorney Yaakov Roth on Friday filed a letter in which he said that “neither ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or target for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that ICE or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.”

Roth said the allegation ICE has been mandated to compile 3,000 arrests per day “appears to originate from media reports quoting a White House adviser.”

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