Director, John Morton

John Morton was unanimously confirmed as the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by the U.S. Senate on May 12, 2009. ICE is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government. Created in 2003, the agency has a budget of $5.7 billion dollars and more than 20,000 employees in offices in all 50 states and 47 foreign countries. The agency’s primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.

Prior to his appointment by the President, Mr. Morton spent 15 years at the Department of Justice. At the Department, Mr. Morton served in several positions including Assistant United States Attorney, Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division.

During his tenure at ICE, Mr. Morton has strengthened ICE’s investigative efforts, with a particular emphasis on border crimes, export controls, intellectual property enforcement and child exploitation. Mr. Morton has also sought to prioritize ICE’s immigration enforcement efforts around the removal of criminal offenders, recent border violators, and those who ignore orders of removal or obtain immigration status by fraud.

Deputy Director, Daniel H. Ragsdale

Daniel Ragsdale is deputy director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the principal investigative agency in the Department of Homeland Security. He is responsible for an annual budget of almost $6 billion and more than 20,000 employees assigned to more than 400 offices, including 70 international offices in U.S. embassies worldwide.

Mr. Ragsdale is also the agency’s chief management officer, overseeing the Office of Management and Administration. The Office of Management and Administration directs, plans and coordinates the core mission support functions and programs at ICE. Mr. Ragsdale oversees the chiefs of finance, information technology, procurement, human capital; officers of privacy, freedom of information act; as well as the offices of firearms, policy, training, chief diversity, and equal opportunity.

Mr. Ragsdale joined the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service’s General Counsel Office in 1996 and served as an attorney in New York, N.Y., as well as Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. He also served as a special assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. Mr. Ragsdale joined ICE’s headquarters legal team in 2006 as chief of the Enforcement Law Division. In 2008, he moved to the Office of the Assistant Secretary as a counselor to the assistant secretary. He received an undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Mr. Ragsdale is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars.

Acting Executive Associate Director Management and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Radha Sekar

Radha Sekar is the acting executive associate director of Management and Administration and the chief financial officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Ms. Sekar oversees accounting and finance, budget, facilities and engineering, and asset management. Prior to joining ICE, she was the assistant deputy undersecretary for financial management for the undersecretary of defense comptroller In this capacity, she served as the senior advisor and assistant to the under secretary of defense (comptroller), responsible for maximizing synergies and capabilities both within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and defense-wide. Ms. Sekar has an extensive background in developing and implementing new and re-engineered business processes, defining and implementing business rules that lead to statutory compliances and commercial best practices, developing financial management policies and implementing business application systems that support them. She has more than 20 years experience practicing these principles in the public and private sectors. As the assistant deputy chief financial officer for the Department of Defense, she supervised department-wide financial improvement and audit readiness efforts, developed and implemented financial management regulations and policies, prepared the Department of Defense's quarterly and annual financial statements and was responsible for the overall financial management improvement efforts of the Department of Defense. Ms. Sekar is a leader in defining and developing C4ISR-compliant technical and functional business enterprise architectures. She is a past partner at IBM Business Consulting Services and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

She is a graduate of State University of New York at Buffalo with a Master of Business Administration degree and a bachelor's degree in computer science. She is also a charted accountant (similar to a certified public accountant) in India and holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from University of Madras, India.

Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations, James Dinkins

James A. Dinkins is the executive associate director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE is the second largest criminal investigative agency in the United States and the largest investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. HSI is comprised of more than 9,113 employees, which includes more than 7,050 special agents who are assigned to 26 special agent in charge offices in major cities, 185 other field offices throughout the United States, and 71 overseas locations in 47 countries. As the director, Mr. Dinkins has direct oversight of ICE's investigative and enforcement initiatives and operations targeting cross-border criminal organizations that exploit America's legitimate travel, trade, financial and immigration systems for their illicit purposes. This includes the investigation of financial crimes; bulk cash smuggling; narcotics smuggling and trafficking; human smuggling and trafficking; commercial trade, fraud and intellectual property right crimes; cyber crimes and the exploitation of children; immigration and document and benefit fraud; human rights violators; transnational gang activity; and weapons smuggling and export enforcement. To accomplish this mission, Mr. Dinkins administers a budget of more than $2 billion and is responsible for strategic planning, national policy implementation and the development and execution of all operational initiatives.

Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Dinkins held a number of key leadership positions within ICE, including special agent in charge for HSI Washington, D.C., acting director for the Office of Professional Responsibility, special agent in charge for HSI Baltimore, chief of ICE's Cornerstone and Financial Investigation Programs at ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C., assistant special agent in charge for HSI Michigan and Ohio and acting attaché for HSI Frankfurt.

Mr. Dinkins began his law enforcement career as a co-op student with the U.S. Customs Service in 1986. In 1989, he became a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service office in San Francisco. In 1996, Mr. Dinkins transferred to the Detroit office where he was promoted to group supervisor and then assistant special agent in charge. In 2004, he was promoted to ICE headquarters and served as the ICE Cornerstone and Financial Investigation Programs chief where he was responsible for developing international and domestic initiatives designed to combat vulnerabilities in America's financial and trade sectors that could be exploited by terrorist or other criminal organizations.

Mr. Dinkins holds a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from the University of Detroit, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Gary Mead

Gary Mead is the Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington D.C. Mr. Mead oversees a $2.5 billion budget and 8,395 employees. ERO promotes public safety and national security by removing national security threats, high-risk criminal aliens, illegal alien fugitives, and absconders; and ensuring safe and effective custody management for more than 30,000 illegal aliens in custody each day.

Between 1974 and 2006, he served in the U.S. Marshals Service where he held a number of Senior Executive Service law enforcement and administrative positions at the associate and assistant director levels. His areas of responsibility included Prisoner Operations, Asset Forfeiture, JPATS, Management and Budget, Human Resources, and the U.S. Marshals Service Training Academy. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as the assistant director for management, deputy director and acting director for the ICE Office of Detention and Removal Operations (currently, ERO). From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Mead was a self-employed criminal justice and immigration consultant. He returned to ICE in November 2009 as deputy assistant director, and then assistant director, of Detention Management.

Mr. Mead holds a master's degree and has received two Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Awards.

Principal Legal Advisor, Peter S. Vincent

Peter S. Vincent is the principal legal advisor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In this position, he oversees the largest legal program in DHS. Mr. Vincent supervises nearly 1,000 attorneys and an additional 350 legal and mission support specialists who represent ICE in removal proceedings before immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. In addition, he advises ICE’s numerous enforcement components on issues ranging from customs law to Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues.

In July 2002, following a successful career as a litigator in private practice, Mr. Vincent joined the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. He later served on the National Security Litigation Team in the San Francisco Office of the Chief Counsel for ICE. As a trial attorney, he represented the government in immigration proceedings involving terrorists and individuals who provided material support to foreign terrorist organizations. In addition, Mr. Vincent advised the local Joint Terrorism Task Force on issues relating to counterterrorism and foreign counterintelligence.

In November 2006, Mr. Vincent was appointed to serve as the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) assistant judicial attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. In December 2008, he was promoted to judicial attaché. In those capacities, Mr. Vincent advised DOJ, the U.S. Department of State and various law enforcement and intelligence-gathering agencies on matters concerning extradition, terrorist organizations and narco-trafficking. During his tenure at the U.S. Embassy, he coordinated nearly 500 extraditions to the United States, including the extradition requests for dozens of high-profile leaders of designated foreign terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).

Mr. Vincent graduated with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of A

Assistant Director, Office of Professional Responsibility, Timothy Moynihan

Timothy Moynihan is assistant director for the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington, D.C.

Timothy Moynihan has been employed with the United States government for more than 23 years. Prior to entering law enforcement, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and paralegal studies. Upon graduation, Mr. Moynihan accepted a position as a criminal investigator with the Internal Revenue Service, Office of the Regional Inspector in New York City. In 1991, he was selected for a special agent position with the U.S. Customs Service. From 1991 through 2001, he was assigned to offices in the New York City metropolitan area conducting narcotics smuggling and financial crimes investigations. He was also assigned to the U.S. Customs Service Office of Internal Affairs.

In 2002, Mr. Moynihan received a promotion and assignment to the U.S. Customs Service, Office of Internal Affairs, Special Investigations Unit, in Washington, D.C. In this position, he investigated allegations of criminal and administrative misconduct involving GS-15 employees and above, employees stationed in foreign offices and specific requests by the ICE Assistant Secretary or the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner.

Since 2004, Moynihan has held a variety of headquarters management positions, including chief of the Operational Support Unit, responsible for directing OPR’s policy, training and case management programs, as well as chief of the Investigative Support Unit, where he was responsible for providing guidance and national oversight for all OPR workforce integrity investigations. In September 2007, Mr. Moynihan was appointed to the position of deputy director. In December 2009, he was appointed as the assistant director for OPR where he leads its four-fold mission of workforce integrity investigations, personnel security, inspections and security management.