Ice leadership shakeup as Trump admin pushes to ramp up deportations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : " The five cities are believed to be the first of more to come across ICE's 24 field offices nationwide, according to officials familiar with the plans.
54% : According to officials, Bovino is now viewed not as an exception but as the new standard for what is to come at ICE.
39% : In Philadelphia, an ICE Homeland Security Investigations official, not Border Patrol, will take over for McShane.
37% : President Donald Trump's administration has begun to purge Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in offices across five major U.S. cities -- Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and San Diego -- and is filling some of those top posts with senior Border Patrol agents who will take over interior immigration enforcement in those regions, according to exclusive reporting from the Washington Examiner and multiple news outlets. ICE leaders in these cities were relieved of their jobs and moved to other posts within the federal agency last Friday, with the Department of Homeland Security quietly beginning to overhaul how it carries out its mass deportation operation over the weekend.
37% : The DHS had plotted to fire all five field office directors but relented amid pushback from acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who urged that they are not terminated, with one official stating, "The administration wanted all these guys fired and Todd stepped in and said, 'Let's move them all to headquarters.'
15% : Gregory Bovino, who oversees the Border Patrol's El Centro, California region, has become the face of the Trump administration's crackdown for his aggressive style, leading Border Patrol agents in a parade down Chicago's business district and bringing in additional agents to supplement ICE efforts.

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