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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Hopefully the next guy does better
The media writes these false headlines just so their followers will spread it through online forums, in their never ending effort to make it seem like this administration is in complete chaos.
So when you visit other forums, such as movie forums, or video game forums, you get these headlines from leftist users there thinking they’ve nabbed a gotcha on Trump supporters there, just to start online arguments and discourse.
More than that, the notion that Trump is pissed off because of low numbers is dumb. Border crossings have stopped. Time is on our side.
Acting chief. They left out something
We voted for RUTHLESS!
I’ll be so glad when Ruth gets back.
i miss Ruth
she called roe v wade
weak sauce
turns out it wasnt a super precedent
like harris and klobuchar said
It’s gonna be pretty tough for the crackdown to be too “ruthless”. Unless illegals are being placed in extermination style concentration camps, I really don’t want to hear about how “ruthless” the deportation process is.
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