Overview
- An acting official and a former federal official told AP that 12 ICE field office directors will be reassigned in a broad leadership reset.
- About half of the replacements are slated to come from Border Patrol ranks with the rest drawn from ICE, reflecting a push to import CBP tactics into interior operations.
- Cities referenced by officials include Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, though DHS and the White House declined to confirm specific moves.
- The overhaul is the third major ICE reorganization this year as the administration pursues targets reported as 3,000 arrests per day and roughly 1 million deportations annually.
- To bolster capacity, the government has redeployed hundreds of agents from CBP, DEA, ATF and the U.S. Marshals Service and requested 20,000 National Guard members, while additional funding sought in Congress remains pending.