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The Biden years’ open-border chaos finally met a dose of reality this week when the Department of Homeland Security quietly reassigned Caleb Vitello, the acting head of ICE, into a field-and-enforcement role amid mounting frustration over the slow pace of deportations. The move makes clear that this administration — and the border czar Tom Homan in particular — are done tolerating bureaucratic foot-dragging while American communities pay the price.
What followed was an even broader shakeup at ICE: reports say roughly a dozen field office chiefs are being reassigned and some posts are being filled by Customs and Border Protection veterans, signaling a hard pivot toward aggressive enforcement and results. Conservatives who have warned for years that agency culture needed to change should welcome leadership that puts public safety and law enforcement above political theater.
Tom Homan didn’t mince words — he told reporters arrests inside the country are higher than under the prior administration, but he’s “not satisfied” and wants the pace stepped up dramatically. It’s refreshing to hear a border czar who measures success in arrests and removals, not in press releases and excuses from soft-on-crime officials.
Homan has been blunt about what needs to happen next: more teams, more arrests, more deportations — and an unmistakable focus on violent gangs and repeat offenders who prey on our neighborhoods. That kind of no-nonsense, battlefield leadership is exactly what the failed, permissive immigration policies of the last few years did not deliver.
Yes, there are logistical headaches — ICE has long operated with too few officers, too few detention beds, and too few removal flights — but those are solvable problems when politicians stop sentimentalizing lawbreaking and start funding enforcement. The administration has already begun augmenting resources with charter and military lift and by pulling officers from other agencies; now Congress must stop stalling and give the men and women enforcing our laws what they need to protect Americans.
Predictably, sanctuary-city politicians are howling, but Homan has made it clear the feds will not be deterred: if local policies block safe jail transfers, ICE will hunt offenders at worksites and in the community. That’s common-sense: cities that refuse to cooperate should not get to outsource crime to the rest of the country while pretending they’re protecting anyone but criminal elements.
This shakeup is more than personnel theater — it’s a test of whether America will reclaim its sovereignty and enforce its laws. Hardworking Americans expect their leaders to protect them first; Homan and this administration are finally moving in the right direction, and anyone who truly cares about safety should stand behind doing the hard work of arresting and deporting the people who threaten our communities.
