🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:27:01.326Z
Other outlets are now reporting. First to report tonight was Anna Giaritelli at the Washington Examiner, whose story if anything missed how big the purge was. It's not just five cities; ICE Field Office Directors are being fired in at least a dozen cities, and will be replaced by CBP people instead.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:34:09.091Z
NBC has a story on this as well already, and they've got an indicative quote as to how things will go:
"'The mentality is CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE isn’t getting the job done,;' one of the DHS officials said. 'So CBP will do it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:35:04.876Z
THIS is the reason why I have consistently tried to emphasize that Border Patrol and ICE are different agencies with different duties and different leadership and different styles.
Border Patrol are the aggro cowboys compared to ICE. Now they're going to be the ones running the show.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:36:47.098Z
Also, note that the person making all these decisions is not Secretary Noem; it's Corey Lewandowski, who is still a "special government employee" (and by many reports sleeping with Noem and running the agency while she does mostly TV), as well as Gregory Bovino himself.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:41:11.681Z
While it's too soon to tell exactly how this will change ICE operationally, suffice to say that, when you combine this with the massive surge in new recruits, the institutional culture of the agency may be forever changed towards a far more aggressive, militarized posture.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:43:45.175Z
Bill Melugin got more details but Anna G. at the Examiner broke the story. Worth noting also that Bill is clearly telegraphing the message that the rank and file at ICE are NOT happy about this.
This is going to be a good time for reporters to get inside stories from disgruntled ICE staff.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:48:37.880Z
Pulling this into the main thread because you flagged an underappreciated part of this (which Bill Melugin touches on).
Homan, despite being a blowhard, prefers targeted enforcement. Lewandowski and Bovino want MASS deportations and don't care about who they get -- and they won this fight.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-10-28T00:54:05.435Z
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