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chairman donald trump‘s administration plans to replace nearly half of its regional snow director with him border Patrol counterparts as part of a major change in its leadership illegal immigration Action as per reports.
Administration frustrated by ICE’s failure to meet with White House deputy chief of staff stephen millertargets 3,000 arrests undocumented migrant daily, the new York Times reports,
The latest available data, compiled before the government shutdown, recorded an average arrest rate of 1,178 per day in September, well below Miller’s expectations.
This development came as California Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal Ax moved to announce the latest death of a detainee in ICE custody, adding further pressure to the highly criticized immigration enforcement agency.
“22 immigrants have died in custody since Trump came into office,” the congresswoman said. wrote“This is outrageous. ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing miserably.”
Independent ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have been contacted for comment.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson gave this information Now: “The President’s entire team is working hard to implement the President’s policy agenda, and the tremendous results from securing the border to deporting criminal illegal aliens speak for themselves.”
The Trump administration’s decision to replace ICE field directors with replacements from Customs and Border Patrol was driven by top aides to the President being impressed by the latter’s “more aggressive tactics to secure arrests.” nbc report“Such as jumping into apartment buildings from Black Hawk helicopters and jumping out of rental trucks in Home Depot parking lots.”
“The mentality is that CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE is not doing a job,” a DHS official told NBC. “So CBP will do it.”
The network reports that the White House has signed off on a list of at least a dozen directors of ICE field offices that it intends to remove soon, half of whom will be replaced by CBP personnel.
Given that there are only 25 ICE field offices across the US, the replacement would mean removing nearly half of its leadership.
The list of replacements, which have not been named, was reportedly prepared by a DHS consultant corey lewandowski and CBP chief Greg Bovino, who has overseen the operations of its agents in Los Angeles and Chicago.
The alleged dissatisfaction towards ICE has come to light after this revelation by the agency spent 70 million dollars on weapons In the first nine months of Trump’s second term, the amount spent in Joe Biden’s final year in office increased by 700 percent, as its role has been dramatically expanded to help carry out “the largest mass deportation program in history,” as the president promised during the campaign.
The 20,000-strong agency has also been the subject of a major recruitment driveAssistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin recently claimed that ICE had access to Spotify,