Overview
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Charles Wall will serve as ICE deputy director effective immediately.
- Wall is a 14-year ICE attorney who most recently served as principal legal advisor, overseeing more than 3,500 attorneys and staff.
- He succeeds Madison Sheahan, who left the role to run for a congressional seat in Ohio.
- DHS framed the appointment as aligning ICE leadership with intensified public-safety priorities targeting murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.
- The leadership change follows heightened scrutiny of ICE operations after a Jan. 7 fatal shooting in Minneapolis, and the agency offered no additional comment beyond the announcement.