The Department of Homeland Security is expected to name Tony H. Pham as the new leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Washington Examiner learned Tuesday afternoon.

Pham is the top attorney at ICE in his role as principal legal adviser. He was born in Saigon and came to the United States as a refugee in the 1970s, according to his government biography. Pham became a U.S. citizen in 1985, following a decade in the country.