Trump administration plans to name David Venturella as interim ICE chief after Lyons' departure
The longtime immigration official is expected to take over as ICE faces pressure to speed arrests and shift away from aggressive city operations.
- The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that David Venturella will serve as the next acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replacing Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who leaves his post on May 31.
- Before rejoining the agency last year, Venturella worked as an executive at The GEO Group, a private prison firm holding ICE detention contracts, and began his career in 1986 at the former Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- As Republicans push to pass a roughly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund ICE and CBP, Democrats are expected to scrutinize Venturella's past ties to the detention industry, though ICE stated he has divested from GEO.
- Supporters describe Venturella as "definitely on board with the mission and the mass deportation agenda," while White House border czar Tom Homan said the agency has shifted to a "smarter" and "targeted" enforcement strategy.
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Longtime ICE official David Venturella chosen to head agency
Longtime ICE official David Venturella has been chosen to lead the immigration agency after its former acting director’s departure was announced last month, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Tuesday evening.
Trump's new ICE chief once intervened to deport woman at behest of president's friend: NYT
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that David Venturella will lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Venturella is known not just as a career ICE agent and former executive at the GEO Group, the private prison company that owns some of the ICE detention facilities, as reported by ...
Trump expected to name ICE veteran with private detention ties as agency’s acting director
Dave Venturella, a longtime immigration enforcement official, is expected to be named acting ICE director. His decade-long ties to private prison firm Geo Group may face scrutiny.
Trump picks new acting ICE director
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner NewsNation that President Trump will select Dave Venturella to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an acting capacity after the departure of Todd Lyons, who is currently serving as the acting ICE chief. Lyons is expected to leave the…
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