By Molly Claire Goddard
9:04am PDT, May 30, 2025
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Major changes are coming to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Thursday, May 29, the government
agency announced the shake-up in leadership after
Donald Trump and his administration requested they ramp up the daily number of arrests of illegal migrants in the United States.
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In recent weeks, Donald Trump and his officials raised the number of the agency's daily migrant
arrests from their January goal of 1,800 per day to 3,000.
As the change is enacted, the head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division
Kenneth Genalo will be exiting his job. Per the entity, the staffer "decided to retire and will continue to serve the public as a special government employee to ICE."
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Executive Associate Director
Robert Hammer will be reassigned to a "critical leadership position."
Additionally,
Marcos Charles and
Derek Gordon will reportedly take over Genalo and Hammer's respective roles at ICE and HSI.
"Organizational realignments will help ICE achieve President Trump and the American people's mandate of arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens and making American communities safe," ICE explained in a statement.
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Right before ICE's official announcement, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller revealed Donald Trump and the administration's new arrest projections during a Wednesday, May 28, interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
"Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day," he said. "And President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day, so we can get all of the [Joe] Biden illegals that were flooded into our country for four years out of our country."
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Shortly after Donald Trump took office again in February, insiders alleged the U.S. leader was not happy with the initial number of arrests ICE was bringing in daily.
"It's driving him nuts they're not deporting more people," a source claimed to
NBC News in February.
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Donald Trump and his staffers have continued to blame former president Joe Biden's left-leaning policies for why there are so many illegal immigrants in the U.S.
"After four years of the Biden administration's outright incompetence and negligence, the Trump administration has re-established a no-nonsense enforcement of and respect for the immigration laws of the United States," Trump spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement earlier this year. "Hundreds of violent, predatory and gang-affiliated criminal illegal aliens have already been rounded up and deported by ICE since President Trump took office — and the Trump administration is aligned on securing our borders and ensuring that mass deportations are conducted quickly and effectively to put Americans and America First."
