Caleb Vitero, director of immigration and customs enforcement, was reassigned on Friday in the latest staffing reforms at agencies tasked with arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.
Vitello will now oversee “all areas and enforcement operations,” including “the discovery, arrests and deportation of illegal aliens,” a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security told Politico.
The new ice chief has not been named.
Vitello, a 23-year veteran of Ice, was tasked with interim agency from President Trump last December.
His relegation comes a week after the Trump administration moved two other top ice workers to a local field office.
Officials Russell Hot and Peter Berg have been cut from Ice's enforcement division amid growing pressure to tighten immigrant arrests and deportation from the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post. .
“We have the president, the DHS secretaries, and the Americans who demand results. Our ICE leadership ensures that the agency delivers,” a DHS spokesperson said at the time.
According to Politico, the pace of ice arrests has slowed after the first jump in the Trump administration's first few weeks.
Trump, 78, has expressed his “anger” in recent weeks, indicating that more people have not been deported by the ice. NBC News.
Border Emperor Tom Homan also says he is “unsatisfied” with how Trump administration's immigration crackdown is progressing.
“Looking at the rest of the interior execution, it's three times as high as today's year ago,” Homan told White House reporters last week. “It's good to be three times more expensive, but I'm not satisfied.”
“There are hundreds of thousands of criminals who need to be arrested,” he added, “the sanctuary city is raising obstacles,” and “leaks within the government about a planned ice attack.” He stated that there was.
DHS and ICE did not respond to requests to post comments.
