ICE leadership purge underway, now ramping up for ‘blitz’ tactics to keep deportation figures high

Think ICE is bad now? Well, they’re about to get a whole lot worse. The White House is putting constant pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to keep arrest and deportation figures up, but, ten months into the second Trump administration, they’ve plucked all the low-hanging fruit.

Now senior DHS and Trump administration sources have confirmed that a “mass removal” of ICE leadership figures is currently underway, with their replacements new ICE Chiefs with fewer reservations about the use of extreme violence and “blitz” tactics.

As per a report from Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, ICE Field Office Directors in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Denver, El Paso, San Diego, Seattle/Portland, and New Orleans are being removed from their positions.

BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 27, 2025

The division is between ICE officials who want to pursue criminal illegal aliens and those with deportation orders, meaning they’re tracking down specific individuals. Their replacements will be those who support “blitz” tactics, i.e. mass untargeted arrests of anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. That split is also down to the two factions within ICE: ICE itself and Border Patrol, which also acts under the umbrella of “ICE”.

ICE generally supports targeted action and Border Patrol wants to focus on “roving patrols” at locations they think potential migrants may gather. Border Patrol is now edging out their competitors, with the new Field Office Directors to be chosen by Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, pictured below in an outfit that I’m sure entirely coincidentally makes him look like an SS commander:

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/8yVsctrREM

— Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) (@SpockResists) October 27, 2025

“What did everyone think mass deportations meant?”

Melugin quotes a Border Patrol agent who says that the nature of “mass deportations” means things are inevitably going to get messy, so those involved shouldn’t be squeamish about dragging away screaming women and children rather than hardened criminals:

“What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table.”

But senior DHS officials are increasingly concerned the Border Patrol thugs are going too far with their smash n’ grab tactics:

“Since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we’ve (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It’s getting numbers, but at what cost?”

The DHS being under immense pressure to maintain the levels of arrests and deportations while quickly running out of potential illegal immigrants was always going to lead to ever more brutal dragnets. And when these roving patrols run out of “illegals”? Well, they’re just going to have to find new targets…