- The acting leader of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will leave his post at the end of the month.
- The announcement by acting Director Tae Johnson was expect and reported on in April.
- ICE has struggled to find a permanent leader since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. The president nominated Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez but later withdrew his pick.
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FILE - Migrants wait along a border wall Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. immigration offices have become so overwhelmed with processing migrants for court that some some asylum-seekers who crossed the border at Mexico may be waiting a decade before they even get a date to see a judge. The backlog stems from a change made two months after President Joe Biden took office, when Border Patrol agents began now-defunct practice of quickly releasing immigrants on parole. They were given instructions to report to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at their final destination to be processed for court — work previously done by the Border Patrol. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
