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Posted on 05/13/2026 4:07:06 AM PDT by DFG
Longtime ICE official David Venturella has been chosen to lead the immigration agency after its former acting director’s departure was announced last month, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Tuesday evening.
Venturella was executive director of ICE’s Secure Communities program, which deals with people in the country illegally who are in the custody of other law enforcement agencies.
He also served at the private prison company GEO Group as a senior vice president of client relations until 2023. GEO Group has over $1 billion worth of contracts with ICE, according to public records.
After he retired from GEO, Venturella was a consultant for the company, advising on new and existing contracts, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
President Barack Obama ended the Secure Communities program in 2014. Then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a memo at the time that the program alienated immigrant communities from local law enforcement.
Under the program, authorities shared digital fingerprints from everyone booked into jail with federal authorities, who used it to look for people in the country without authorization.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstitute the Secure Communities program in 2017, during his first term.
Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March and replaced her with a Republican ally, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
Trump campaigned for his second term in office by promising mass deportations. After he retook office, ICE was thrust into the national spotlight when federal officers, some of them from ICE, carried out immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago and other cities.
During the operation in Minneapolis, federal officers fatally shot two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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2 US CITIZENS COMMITTED ‘SUICIDE BY ICE’,IMO.
Gotta love NBC. 90% of this story is about Venturella’s alleged “conflicts of interest” and Trump’s immigration policies. If this was a nomination by a Dem administration, the NBC spin would be about how Venturella was the son of immigrants and how important that is for the head of an agency like ICE.
Per an ABCNews article:
“Venturella is a close ally of border czar Tom Homan ...”
That would give him a ‘thumbs up’ from me.
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