ICE Leadership Swap Aims to Boost Deportation Push

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is undergoing one of its largest internal leadership reorganizations in years, as the Trump administration seeks to accelerate its immigration-arrest and deportation agenda.

One current and one former U.S. government official told The Associated Press that at least 12 of ICE’s 25 field-office directors are being reassigned — almost half the agency’s regional leadership.

Officials also spoke with Axios on the condition of anonymity, saying the shake-up was driven by pressure from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security on ICE to meet more aggressive enforcement and removal targets.

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