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Trump purges immigration chief for failing to arrest enough illegal migrants in ruthless new crackdown
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 21, 2025 | Nick Allen

Posted on 02/21/2025 2:32:57 PM PST by Morgana

Donald Trump's top immigration official has been removed for failing to arrest enough illegal immigrants.

Caleb Vitello, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was reassigned on Friday.

It came as deportations of migrants have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official said.

Vitello, was in the role in an acting capacity and under pressure to step up enforcement after other top ICE officials were reassigned last week.

The move was said to have come after frustration within the Trump administration over the speed of deportations.

According to the Department of Homeland Security Vitello will stay at ICE in a different role.

A spokesman told the Wall Street Journal he was 'actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role.'

Instead, he would be 'overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.'

Vitello is a career official ah had worked with Trump in his first term.

He was the third senior ICE official to be removed this month.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; dailymail; dailywail; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; mi6propaganda; nickallen; ruthless; tds
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Anyone know the back story on this guy?
1 posted on 02/21/2025 2:32:57 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Pure hysteric BS from the Daily Fail. From their own story

According to the Department of Homeland Security Vitello will stay at ICE in a different role.

A spokesman told the Wall Street Journal he was 'actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role.'

Instead, he would be 'overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.'

2 posted on 02/21/2025 2:35:16 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: MNJohnnie

this removal sounds alot like a promotion to me


3 posted on 02/21/2025 2:37:15 PM PST by jneesy (Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin)
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To: Morgana

Trump purges immigration chief for failing to arrest enough illegal migrants in ruthless new crackdown


Even though ICE says it does not have enough money to catch more quicker. There must be another reason.


4 posted on 02/21/2025 2:38:19 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Morgana

This is courtesy of London’s Daily Mail. Seems to me that they might want to focus on the Pakistani grooming gangs found nationwide...horribly violating young British girls.


5 posted on 02/21/2025 2:41:01 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Morgana

If these clowns think that the word ruthless in this context is going to upset me,they are quite wrong. It excites me, it’s like sex for my ears.


6 posted on 02/21/2025 2:41:17 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: Morgana

He was only acting in that role.

Being replaced is sort of normal.


7 posted on 02/21/2025 2:43:56 PM PST by Red6
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To: Morgana

title is misleading. he didn’t get rid of him, the guy is still in a leadership position.


8 posted on 02/21/2025 2:44:27 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: jneesy
this removal sounds alot like a promotion to me

F**k up, move up.

9 posted on 02/21/2025 2:44:46 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: jneesy

LOL


10 posted on 02/21/2025 2:46:29 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The Supreme Court has been Ruthless for a while now too.


11 posted on 02/21/2025 2:48:01 PM PST by xp38
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To: Morgana

We’re ruthless? No. We aren’t the ruthless ones.


12 posted on 02/21/2025 2:48:15 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Morgana

Ruthless?

Firing entrenched insubordinate bureaucrats?

I think I see the problem.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 3:13:59 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: ice
Stop leaking raid information
14 posted on 02/21/2025 3:18:22 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: xp38

It was Ruthful for far too long.


15 posted on 02/21/2025 3:25:50 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Morgana

I think that most of the acting whatevers have been non-appointed staff the President could trust while he waited for the appointed people to take those spots.


16 posted on 02/21/2025 3:34:54 PM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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To: Morgana

Ruthless crackdown? That sums up the article.

Necessary crackdown makes more sense.


17 posted on 02/21/2025 3:38:54 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Ruthless crackdown?

Yeah, Ginsberg is a skeleton now, so things can go more smoothly now.

18 posted on 02/21/2025 3:40:21 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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To: Morgana

It’s obvious that Trump wants action. Any signs of the “resistance” being involved and causing delays in implementing his policies and the culprit will be out the door.


19 posted on 02/21/2025 3:45:19 PM PST by CFW
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Stop leaking raid information”


They may have found the culprit!


20 posted on 02/21/2025 3:52:26 PM PST by CFW
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