Senate confirms new head of ICE

Published December 16, 2014 8:44pm ET



The Senate has confirmed Sarah Saldaña as the nation’s top immigration official after a more than 500-day wait.

Her bid to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, was approved Tuesday along a mostly party-line vote of 55-39. Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Orrin Hatch of Utah were the lone Republicans to support her nomination, while no Democrats voted no.

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