Marcos Charles
highActing Executive Associate Director, ICE ERO (2025-present)
Field Office Director, ICE ERO
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Department of Homeland Security
January 26, 2026
Description
Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (2025-present), leading the deportation branch responsible for arrests and removals. Appointed after previous leadership was purged for not meeting deportation quotas.
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Evidence
Appointed to lead ICE's deportation branch after previous leadership removed for not meeting Stephen Miller's goal of 3,000 arrests per day
Defended ICE targeting of 5-year-old child in Minnesota, claiming officers targeted the father
Defended raids as 'targeted enforcement looking for the worst of the worst' while ICE conducted mass sweeps in communities