Acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello has been removed from his position amid reports President Trump is unhappy with the pace of deportations, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Earlier this month it was reported that President Trump and border czar Tom Homan were reportedly unhappy with the current number of deportations.
According to a report by NBC, Trump and Homan were disappointed with the pace of deportations so far and demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramp up their operations.
Caleb Vitello was reassigned to oversee all field and enforcement operations.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, was removed from his post, administration officials and other people familiar with the matter said, amid frustration in the Trump administration that deportations haven’t accelerated faster.
The administration is shaking up the leadership at ICE and is soon expected to announce a new acting director, one of the administration officials said. Another administration official said the team at ICE would be expanded.
A spokeswoman for DHS said in a statement that Vitello is “actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role, but is overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.”
Vitello will remain at ICE and will head the office responsible for arrests and deportations.
Earlier this month President Trump reassigned two senior ICE officials over the slow pace of deportations.
Reuters reported that the Trump Administration has deported nearly 40,000 illegal aliens since Inauguration Day.
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