Overview

• Kenneth Genalo retired and Robert Hammer was reassigned in the latest May shakeup after falling short of deportation targets.
• Marcos Charles was named acting head of Enforcement and Removal Operations while Derek Gordon took the helm at Homeland Security Investigations.
• The administration is demanding ICE more than quadruple its current pace, aiming to raise daily arrests from 656 to at least 3,000.
• ICE has requested congressional funding to detain 100,000 people and remove one million immigrants each year.
• Stagnant officer numbers, limited detention beds, and scarce deportation flights threaten the agency’s capacity to meet new enforcement goals.