Caleb Vitello has been removed from his post as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman told the Journal that Vitello “will remain at ICE and will head the office responsible for arrests and deportations.”
She said he was “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.”
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According to the Journal, “Top administration officials have been putting growing pressure on ICE to increase its daily arrests, even at one point telling individual field offices they were expected to hit daily targets of 75 arrests a day, or about 1,500 across the country. They have been casting around for solutions as daily arrests haven’t been hitting those targets.”
The report stated that Trump’s administration was “frustrated.”
Vitello’s reassignment is part of the Trump administration’s shake-up of ICE leadership as they try to accelerate the number of undocumented migrants they deport.
Donald Trump promised during his campaign to enact a “mass deportation plan” to rid the U.S. of “millions” of undocumented migrants.