President-elect Donald Trump‘s selection of Caleb Vitello as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is part of the incoming administration’s effort to push out the Biden holdover on Day One and begin carrying out the mass deportation, sources tell the Washington Examiner.

Trump announced Vitello, a senior ICE official, as the leader of the 20,000-person federal agency inside the Department of Homeland Security late Thursday evening, ending a monthlong debate over who would win the coveted job.

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