Biden taps Texas sheriff Ed Gonzalez to oversee deportations and immigration arrests as ICE director
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President Biden on Tuesday nominated the sheriff of Texas' most populous county to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), charging him with the formidable task of reforming an agency whose work has come under withering criticism from progressives.
If confirmed by the Senate, Ed Gonzalez, the Harris County sheriff, would lead thousands of officers charged with arresting and deporting unauthorized immigrants, and with operating the sprawling U.S. immigration detention system, which is the largest in the world. Since its inception in 2002, ICE's work under Democratic and Republican administrations has become a focal issue in the polarizing debate over immigration policy in the U.S. Criticism of ICE intensified during the Trump administration, which gave the agency broader discretion to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants, including those without criminal records.The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.