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.
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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.'
this removal sounds alot like a promotion to me
Trump purges immigration chief for failing to arrest enough illegal migrants in ruthless new crackdown
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Even though ICE says it does not have enough money to catch more quicker. There must be another reason.
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.
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.
He was only acting in that role.
Being replaced is sort of normal.
title is misleading. he didn’t get rid of him, the guy is still in a leadership position.
F**k up, move up.
LOL
The Supreme Court has been Ruthless for a while now too.
We’re ruthless? No. We aren’t the ruthless ones.
Ruthless?
Firing entrenched insubordinate bureaucrats?
I think I see the problem.
It was Ruthful for far too long.
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.
Ruthless crackdown? That sums up the article.
Necessary crackdown makes more sense.
Yeah, Ginsberg is a skeleton now, so things can go more smoothly now.
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.
“Stop leaking raid information”
They may have found the culprit!
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