Trump Administration to Replace Acting ICE Director

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.

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President Trump hand-selected Vitello to lead ICE because, though he is a career government official, he worked closely with top Trump immigration officials in the first administration. His removal follows the ouster of two other top deportation officials at ICE earlier this month.

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.

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