Breaking the ICE

The Donald Trump script for ridding the U.S. of undocumented immigrants wowed ’em on the campaign trail. It’s flopping now on the national stage. Trump said he’d target “bad hombres” for deportation — only to wind up arresting a surge of immigrants never known to have committed a crime, the latest stats show.

As tallied by the Washington Post, arrests are up 33% so far this year over this time last year, with a doubling in the number among them who had no criminal record.

Meantime, Trump said he’d yank funding from so-called sanctuary cities — only to prove unable to define the term.

After issuing just three reports naming and shaming local authorities alleged to have rebuffed detention requests, Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week ceased issuing the documents, acknowledging errors.

Yuge errors — like calling Nassau County noncooperative (not true) and mistakenly tossing in a bunch of different Franklin counties, including New York’s.

Anyone who read Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order on immigration, brimming with contradictions and impossibilities, could’ve seen the trouble coming.

It labeled anyone even using a false ID in government dealings as an enforcement “priority.”

And used detainers — requests for localities to hold arrestees in custody beyond the time otherwise allowed, so feds can pick them up — as the sole gauge of cooperation, despite a Chicago federal judge’s holding detainers unconstitutional.

The result: Trump tarred as supposed “sanctuary cities” even those that send daily reports to ICE helpfully advising them of the date and time of inmates’ release.

While he’s readying to build a massive wall across the nation’s southern border, Trump’s immigration edifice is crumbling.