Caleb Vitello, who has decades of experience with the agency, is set to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which will be at the forefront of one of Trump's policy goals, mass deportations.
The swift collapse of the Iranian-backed government in Syria is the latest in a series of setbacks for Iran that have punctured assumptions about its power in the region.
The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
The state's land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.