Senate panel delays vote on nominee to lead immigration agency

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FILE PHOTO: Acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) Ronald Vitiello listens as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks at ICE headquarters in Washington, U.S.
FILE PHOTO: Acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) Ronald Vitiello at ICE headquarters in Washington, U.S., July 6, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis /File Photo

February 13, 2019

By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee postponed a vote on Wednesday on whether to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee Ronald Vitiello to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

The committee’s Chairman Ron Johnson did not elaborate on his reasons for delaying the vote, but the postponement came one day after ICE’s employee union urged lawmakers to block Vitiello’s nomination amid concerns about past racially tinged and controversial comments he made on Twitter.

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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