ERO Executive Associate Director

Kenneth Genalo is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Acting Executive Associate Director. In this role, Mr. Genalo leads ERO in its mission to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of aliens who undermine the safety of our communities and the integrity of our immigration laws.

Responsible for a budget of approximately $5.1 billion, Mr. Genalo directs the operations of more than 7,800 employees assigned to 25 ERO field offices and headquarters, in over 180 domestic locations and 30 overseas locations. He oversees the eight Assistant Directors who lead ERO’s headquarter divisions, including Enforcement, Removal, Custody Management, Non-Detained Management, Field Operations, Law Enforcement Systems and Analysis, ICE Health Service Corps, and Operations Support.

Prior to serving as ERO's acting executive associate director, Mr. Genalo served as the ERO New York City field office director. In that role, he maintained operational responsibility for the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island, and seven upstate counties in New York. He also oversaw a workforce of 369 full-time employees and contractors spread between the ERO New York City field office and several satellite offices, and he directed operations at one Intergovernmental Service Agreement facility.

Mr. Genalo has held numerous leadership positions within ERO, including the serving as the acting field office director for the ERO El Paso field offices and as the deputy field office director in the New York City and Newark field offices. He’s also served as an assistant field office director, supervisory detention and deportation officer, deportation officer, supervisory senior immigration inspector, senior immigration inspector, immigration inspector and Special Response Team deputy commander.

Mr. Genalo began his federal career with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1992. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pace University in New York City.