Trump administration plans to name David Venturella as interim ICE chief after Lyons' departure
The move comes as the administration seeks a quieter enforcement strategy and faces scrutiny over Venturella’s past ties to GEO Group, which has over $1 billion in ICE contracts.
- 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 confirmed this Tuesday that David Venturella will be the next interim head of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE). Venturella, a career officer passing through the private prison company GEO Group, returned to the agency last year and will replace Todd Lyons, who announced his departure in April and will leave office on May 31. The relief comes at a delicate time for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS…
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.
President Trump Picks New Acting ICE Chief After Todd Lyons' Departure
President Trump has chosen longtime ICE official Dave Venturella to temporarily lead the agency. This follows former interim ICE Chief Todd Lyon’s resignation last month. Fox News confirmed the news: NEW: Dave Venturella is expected to be named the next Acting Director of ICE, replacing Todd Lyons, multiple sources say. Venturella has been working in the Trump administration as an ICE senior advisor. He was recruited with help from Tom Homan af…
David Venturella, a veteran immigration officer, would be the next interim director of ICE, according to a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
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.
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