US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announces leadership realignment as enforcement efforts continue to ramp up

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement today announced a leadership realignment to support its increasing operational tempo as the agency achieved its highest number of arrests in its history this week.

Organizational realignments will help ICE achieve President Trump and the American people’s mandate of arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens and making American communities safe.

After 33 years of service to the agency and the American people, ICE’s Acting Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Ken Genalo has decided to retire and will continue to serve the public as a special government employee to ICE. The decision, which places him in a valuable advising role for field leadership, will allow him to spend more time with his family after being away from them since early January.

“Ken Genalo, who’s dedicated more than three decades to ICE and the American people, served as a field office director in New York City before selflessly agreeing to come to ICE Headquarters at the beginning of the Trump administration,” said ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons. “Genalo has served in this acting capacity to help meet the mandate set forth by the American people — his contributions were integral in the successes we’re seeing today. He’s now going to serve as a special government employee working with field office directors within ICE. I can’t thank him enough.”

Homeland Security Investigations Acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer, who has spent the past two decades with HSI and has a wealth of operational knowledge, will transition to another critical leadership position within the agency’s headquarters that requires his unique expertise.

In addition, the following changes were implemented:

• Marcos Charles will become the Acting Executive Associate Director of ERO, and Mellissa Harper will serve as his Acting Deputy.
• Derek Gordon will step into the role of Acting Executive Associate Director of HSI. William “Bill” Walker will serve as Gordon’s Deputy.
• Garrett Ripa will resume his duties as Field Office Director for ERO Miami, FL.
• Tatum King will serve as HSI Acting Assistant Director of Domestic Operations.
• Denesha Helland will serve as Acting Assistant Director of ERO’s Non-Detained Management Division.
• Tom Giles will serve as the Acting Director for ERO Field Operations.
• Charles Wall will head the agency’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor.
• Susan Cullen Dunbar will become the Executive Associate Director of the agency’s Management and Administration Directorate.

Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE.gov)