内容摘要：A drug addict smokes crack cocaine in a downtown area popularly known as “Crackland” in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A drug addict smokes crack cocaine in a downtown area popularly known as “Crackland” in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In a news release Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced leadership changes at the department tasked with finding, arresting and removing immigrants who no longer have the right to be in the country as well as at the agency’s investigative division., who had been the acting director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, is retiring and will serve as a special government employee with ICE. Robert Hammer, who has been the acting head of Homeland Security Investigations, will transition to another leadership role at headquarters.

The agency said Marcos Charles will become the new acting head of ERO while Derek Gordon will be the acting head at HSI. ICE also announced a host of other staff changes at various departments within the agency.ICE said the changes would “help ICE achieve President Trump and the American people’s mandate of arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens and making American communities safe.”The news comes after White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Fox News earlier this week that the administration was setting a goal of 3,000 arrests by ICE each day and that the number could go higher.

“President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day,” said Miller.Three thousand arrests per day would mark a huge increase in daily arrests from current figures. Between Jan. 20 and May 19 the agency arrested 78,155 people, which translates to an average of 656 arrests per day.

This is the latest staff shakeup at an agency that is central to Trump’s vision of removing everyone in the country illegally. In February,

of ICE was reassigned as well as. The Feb. 16 race averaged 6.76 million, but was delayed twice by rain for a total of 3 1/2 hours.

an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedyand later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” “Hairspray” and “Elf,” has died. He was 76.

Wendt’s family said he died early Tuesday morning, peacefully in his sleep while at home, according to the publicity firm The Agency Group.Rhea Perlman, from left, Kelsey Grammar, Ted Danson, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt present the award for outstanding writing for a comedy series during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)