(NewsNation) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer enforce an age limit for new federal officers as a push to add 10,000 new officers continues.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday that the federal agency is removing the age cap for law enforcement, allowing qualified candidates to join without regard to age. The push for more officers comes as the White House has been looking for ICE to make more migrant arrests, with White House senior adviser Stephen Miller telling reporters repeatedly that he wanted to see ICE record 3,000 arrests per day.

However, in a court filing late last week, the Justice Department stated that neither ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet “any numerical quota or target for arrests, d

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