Trump Replaces Acting Immigration Enforcement Chief

Daniel Ragsdale, Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, holds one of 12 trading cards introduced on Tuesday as part of the national Project iGuardian at Newhart Middle School in Mission Viejo, C... Daniel Ragsdale, Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, holds one of 12 trading cards introduced on Tuesday as part of the national Project iGuardian at Newhart Middle School in Mission Viejo, Calif. The school was the site of the launch of the national program aimed at child cyber safety and online sexual predators. Anna Bryson, Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees member, left, and Michelle Collins, Vice President of Exploited Children's Division at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, right, listen. The program uses super hero-style characters to educate parents and youth through age-appropriate programs about online dangers. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Bersebach) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump replaced the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday with another director from within the organization.

Trump replaced Daniel Ragsdale as acting director with Thomas Homan, ICE’s executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations since 2013. Ragsdale will return to his position at deputy director, the Department of Homeland Security said on its Twitter page.

A statement from the Department of Homeland Security said Homan “led ICE’s efforts to identify, arrest, detain, and remove illegal aliens, including those who present a danger to national security or are a risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the United States illegally or otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration laws and our border control efforts.”

The shake-up came the same night that Trump fired the acting U.S. attorney general, Sally Yates, after she wrote that she would refuse to enforce his immigration executive order in court. The White House said in an angry statement that Yates had “betrayed the Department of Justice” by refusing to enforce the order.

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  1. Avatar for smiley smiley says:

    So I guess that whole “you’re fired” shtick wasn’t just an act. He really does like firing people.

  2. will the Reichstag be fired when the purges are finished?

  3. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    The White House said in an angry statement that Yates had “betrayed the Department of Justice” by refusing to enforce the order.

    Translation: Yates, being loyal to the Department of Justice, betrayed Trump by refusing to enforce his order.

  4. ‘Betrayal’??? What a bunch of fking drama queens…

  5. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    He loves the feeling of having power over other people’s lives.

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