Trump administration plans to name David Venturella as interim ICE chief after Lyons' departure
Venturella is a longtime immigration official with prior GEO Group ties as DHS seeks a quieter enforcement approach after a turbulent year.
- 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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The Trump administration is reshuffling leadership at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as President Donald Trump pushes forward with an aggressive expansion of deportation operations. Longtime immigration official David Venturella has been selected to serve as the next acting director of ICE following the resignation of current acting chief Todd Lyons. (Top official resigns minutes before Trump lands in China) Venturella is expected to a…
A former officer of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) and who worked in one of the prison companies operating the detention centres will be the new acting director of the immigration agency. David Venturella will replace Todd Lyons, who will leave his post on May 31 and under whose mandate the ICE has provoked general outrage in the United States over the aggressive methods his officers have used in the arrests.
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Former private prison executive David Venturella will become ICE's acting leader
The Trump administration says a former executive at a private prison operator will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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David Venturella promoted from senior adviser role to acting director after previously serving with immigration enforcement agency under George W Bush and Barack Obama
Jerusalem Post
Blue Water Healthy LivingUS ICE official who worked at private prison firm will be agency's new acting head
"Dave Venturella will serve as acting ICE director following Todd Lyons' departure," the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in a statement.
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