The Trump administration on Tuesday said that David Venturella, a former career Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who worked at a private prison company before rejoining the agency last year, would serve as ICE’s acting leader.
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ICE has long operated with directors who serve only in an “acting” capacity, and has been without a Senate-confirmed director since an Obama-administration official retired in January 2017.
Mr. Venturella’s selection is in line with a push by Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, to keep D.H.S. under the radar and out of headlines. Mr. Venturella was known to prefer quieter operations than the volatile ones conducted by D.H.S. officials in major cities over the past year.
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Mr. Venturella, who left during the Obama administration and worked for the private prison company the GEO Group, has allies inside the agency and the administration, including Mr. Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff and omnipresent immigration lead, according to a federal official.
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