Senate Confirms New ICE Director
Politico reports that The Senate confirmed a top Obama administration immigration official on Tuesday with near-unanimous Republican opposition. The vote to install Sarah Saldana, currently the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was 55-39.
John Morton was the former ICE director from 2009-13.
According to news reports, Saldaña, the state’s first Hispanic U.S. attorney, will become the first Latina to run ICE, the agency that enforces the nation’s immigration laws.
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