Daniel Ragsdale
| Daniel Ragsdale | |
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| Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting |
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In office January 20, 2017 – January 30, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Sarah Saldaña |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Homan (acting) |
| Deputy Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement | |
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Assumed office May 2012 |
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Barack Obama Donald Trump |
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Franklin and Marshall College (BA) Fordham University (JD) |
Daniel H. Ragsdale is an American law official and current Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He has served in that position since May 2012. He was named Acting Director of ICE on January 20, 2017, but was dismissed from that position on January 30, 2017 as part of the "Monday Night Massacre" by President Donald Trump, retaining his post as Deputy Director.
Ragsdale is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
Ragsdale joined the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Immigration & Customs Enforcement) in 1996, where he worked for the General Counsel's Office. He later became chief management officer of ICE, then chief of the Enforcement Law Division. Ragsdale became a deputy director of ICE in 2012. In 2013, his office worked to prosecute a smuggling ring which had been mislabeling the country-of-origin of honey, to skirt anti-dumping laws. In 2014 as deputy director of ICE he participated in a high-profile bust of an online child pornography ring.
He became acting director of ICE on January 20, 2017, following the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Trump replaced Ragsdale with Thomas Homan on January 30, 2017, shortly after he fired Acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates. No explanation was given for the personnel change. Ragsdale retained his position of Deputy Director. The demotion of Ragsdale together with the firing of Yates has been referred to as the Monday Night Massacre.
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