The Department of Homeland Security will elevate an immigration insider – with ties to a detention contractor – to oversee arrests and deportations after months of public blowback against the agency.

David Venturella, a longtime official and former private-prison executive, is expected to take over as acting director at Immigration and Customs Enforcement next month, following a period of chaotic DHS raids that generated negative publicity. The New York Times on Tuesday first reported the move, which a DHS spokesperson confirmed.

Mr. Venturella inherits ICE in a period of searing public scrutiny. Immigrant advocates have labeled the agency’s practices unconstitutional, while MAGA hard-liners continue to call for more deportations – at least 1 million a year. (White House border czar Tom Homan has reported 800,000 deportations during the Trump administration.)

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Appointing veteran official David Venturella as acting director of U.S.…