The Trump administration has already pushed aside its acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, after just weeks on the job due to higher-ups’ concerns that arrests and deportations have not occurred fast enough, according to a new report.

A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner on Friday afternoon that Vitello had in fact been relieved from his duties as the top official at the 20,000-employee agency.

“He is no longer in an administrative role, but is instead overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens, which is a major priority of the President and Secretary Noem,” said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin in a text message, without specifying if Vitello would remain at ICE or be moved to the DHS.

The Wall Street Journal reported Vitello was being ousted due to his job performance. Arrests within the United States have been on par with the number seen during the record-high years of the first term Obama administration.

The move comes after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan have been frustrated with leaked information from ICE about a major illegal immigrant bust targeting Venezuelan gang members in Colorado.

ICE also opted to stop conducting ride-alongs with members of the media until it cleared up who was behind the leak, which led the majority of Tren de Aragua gang members it was targeting to evade capture before the arrests occurred.

President Donald Trump had announced his plans to temporarily place Vitello atop ICE in early December 2024. Vitello would be a critical part of the incoming administration’s effort to push out the Biden holdover on Day One and begin carrying out the mass deportation that Trump promised on the campaign trail.

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Officials involved in the transition on homeland security matters did not specify if Trump planned to nominate Vitello in the future or just use him as an immediate placeholder.

A new acting director has yet to be named, and McLaughlin did not respond when asked how soon that announcement would come.