Trump Administration Launches ICE Leadership Overhaul
(MENAFN) The Trump administration has launched a major overhaul of senior US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials as top aides push to accelerate deportations, according to NBC News and Fox News.
NBC News reported Monday that the administration “is planning to replace some regional leaders” at ICE with officials from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Meanwhile, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin said on social media platform X that the shake-up is already “underway.”
Two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told NBC that the White House has grown increasingly impressed with CBP’s aggressive enforcement tactics, citing incidents where agents have “rappelled into apartment buildings from Black Hawk helicopters and jumping out of rental trucks in Home Depot parking lots.”
“The mentality is CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE isn’t getting the job done,” one DHS official said. “So CBP will do it.”
Melugin added that ICE field office directors in at least eight major cities — including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and New Orleans — are being replaced, noting “significant friction in Homeland Security as to how to best to achieve more deportations.”
A Border Patrol agent quoted by Melugin defended the stricter strategy: “What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? (US border czar) Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table.”
Both NBC News and Fox News noted that DHS special employee Corey Lewandowski, a close ally of Secretary Kristi Noem, is helping lead the effort.
Earlier, The New York Times reported Friday that major leadership changes at ICE were being prepared.
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