Why?
Because the MASS Deporatations Donald Trump promised?
Are simply NOT THERE….
Optics….
Vitello, a veteran ICE official, was removed as acting director one month into his tenure following complaints from White House officials over lagging immigrant arrest numbers. He was reassigned to a senior role overseeing daily enforcement operations, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in February. Despite his demotion, Vitello remained listed at the top of ICE’s leadership chart as of Sunday afternoon and continued to appear at immigration raids wearing a ballistic vest..
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During his campaign, Trump promised to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, but the pace so far has been much slower, prompting, in part, the changes at ICE….
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Lyons is a former assistant director of field operations for ICE’s enforcement and removal branch, overseeing the agency’s domestic operations and 25 field offices across the country….
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Analysts, meanwhile, say there is little evidence that ICE has increased its numbers dramatically — ICE would have to arrest more than 2,700 people a day to reach 1 million a year, which the agency has never done….
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