ICE Leadership

Mr. Venturella began his career in Chicago, Illinois, in May 1986 with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, serving as a Deportation Officer, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer, Assistant Director, and Deputy Director.

In 1998, Mr. Venturella was detailed to Washington, D.C., to assist the INS in requesting emergency funding to support the humanitarian crisis caused by a devastating hurricane that impacted several Central American countries.

In 1999, he was reassigned to INS Headquarters, where he became Assistant Commissioner for Detention and Deportation. Following the dissolution of the INS in 2003, Mr. Venturella joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Assistant Director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations, eventually becoming its Director.

During his tenure, Mr. Venturella negotiated bilateral repatriation agreements for the United States, represented the country at the semi-annual U.S./Cuba Migration Talks, co-chaired a White House working group on a proposed guest worker program, and contributed to the development of the Secure Border Initiative.

From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Venturella served as Vice President and Director of Business Development for two private sector companies focused on homeland security issues.

He returned to ICE in 2008 to oversee the Secure Communities Program, which automated the connection between the Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint system and DHS databases. This initiative enabled state and local law enforcement officers to access real-time information to assist in their duties and provided ICE with instant notification of individuals subject to arrest and removal.

Mr. Venturella also served as Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations before retiring in 2012.

From 2012 to 2023, he served as Senior Vice President at the GEO Group.

Mr. Venturella holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University and completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program administered through Harvard University and MIT.

Charles Wall is the Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mr. Wall oversees ICE’s day-to-day operations, leading over 27,400 employees. He oversees personnel assigned to more than 400 domestic and international offices and administers an annual budget of nearly $10 billion and over $74 billion in One Big Beautiful Bill Act funding.

Mr. Wall has served in a variety of positions with ICE since he started in 2012. He was ICE’s Principal Legal Advisor, overseeing a staff of over 3,500 attorneys and support personnel who represent DHS in removal proceedings and provide accurate, timely and complete legal advice and counsel to the agency’s senior officials and workforce.

From 2016 until his appointment as PLA, Mr. Wall served as Deputy Chief Counsel for OPLA New Orleans, where he oversaw the work of a team of Assistant Chief Counsel; managed the Enforcement and Removal Operations and Employment Law portfolios across multiple states; and supervised the worksite enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations certified undercover teams.

Mr. Wall began his career with ICE as an ACC in Louisiana in 2012. As an ACC, Mr. Wall prosecuted non-detained removal cases at the New Orleans office, served as an HSI embedded attorney, and traveled extensively throughout OPLA New Orleans’s area of responsibility, providing training, presentations and legal advice to ERO and HSI. Mr. Wall also prosecuted detained removal cases at the Oakdale sub-office, where he served as an OPLA national security-designated attorney, securing removal orders in complex and high-profile national security immigration cases.

Prior to joining OPLA, Mr. Wall served as a prosecutor and Senior Assistant District Attorney at the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office from 2009 to 2012. In this role, Mr. Wall and his team were responsible for securing countless major felony convictions against dangerous and violent criminals. Mr. Wall holds a bachelor of arts in history from the University of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School.

The mission of the Office of the Chief of Staff is to provide the ICE Director with the most current, accurate and comprehensive information available, and to facilitate a seamless exchange of information between all of the agency's program offices and the ICE Director.

The Office of the Chief of Staff provides a wide range of support services to the ICE Director in an effort to advance the agency's objectives as identified in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement strategic plan. This includes both administrative and operational support to meet day-to-day organizational needs as well as long-term agency goals.

Marcos Charles is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Executive Associate Director. In this role, Mr. Charles 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.

John A. Condon is currently the Acting Executive Associate Director (EAD) for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the principal investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). HSI investigates, disrupts, and dismantles transnational criminal organizations and terrorist networks that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States. In this role, Mr. Condon oversees HSI’s workforce, which consists of over 10,000 employees, including special agents, criminal analysts, and mission support personnel assigned to over 237 offices throughout the United States and across 56 countries worldwide. He also administers HSI’s annual budget of over $2 billion dollars. 

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Condon has served in a variety of leadership roles within HSI, contributing to both domestic and international operations. As the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) for HSI Tampa, Florida, he oversaw approximately 300 personnel, including special agents, intelligence analysts, and support staff, across the 58 counties comprising the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida. In this role, he managed investigative operations addressing transnational criminal activity within the region. 

Mr. Condon also served as the Acting Assistant Director (AD) for HSI’s International Operations (IO), where he was responsible for overseeing 81 international offices in 53 countries. His duties included managing policies, procedures, and guidelines for HSI’s international investigative activities, ensuring effective coordination with global partners to address transnational threats. 

Before serving as Acting AD, Mr. Condon held the position of Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for IO. He also served as the Acting SAC for HSI Nashville, where he led investigative efforts across Kentucky and Tennessee and supported the establishment of HSI Nashville as a standalone SAC office. Additionally, Mr. Condon served as the Deputy Special Agent in Charge (DSAC) and Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) for the HSI Washington, D.C. field office, where he oversaw financial investigations and enforcement operations. 

Earlier in his career, Mr. Condon served as the HSI Regional Attaché for the Caribbean Area of Responsibility, managing operations in four countries and overseeing two Transnational Criminal Investigative Units. He began his federal law enforcement career with the U.S. Customs Service in New York, working in the JFK Narcotics Smuggling Unit. He later held roles at Headquarters, including Program Manager for the Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) Program and Section Chief for the Undercover Operations Unit. He also served as a Group Supervisor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, leading the Fort Lauderdale BEST team in collaboration with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office to address international maritime smuggling.

Susan C. Dunbar is currently the Executive Associate Director for Management and Administration (M&A) at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In this role, Ms. Dunbar provides oversight and coordination over all the administrative and managerial components of ICE to include the information technology infrastructure, the human capital program, acquisition and procurement activities, professional development of the ICE workforce, information governance and privacy, and ICE assets and facilities. She also has administrative oversight for budget and financial management at ICE. In this position, Ms. Dunbar has oversight for an organization of over 1,600 employees located in multiple offices across the United States, providing management and administration services to an ICE global workforce of over 28,000 law enforcement and support employees. 

Ms. Dunbar joined ICE in 2004 as the Legislative Counsel in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor. She then went on to serve in various Senior Executive Service positions, most notably the ICE Policy Director, the Division Director, Inspections and Detention Oversight, Office of Professional Responsibility, the Chief Human Capital Officer, and the and the Deputy Executive Associate Director for M&A.

Prior to her time at ICE, Ms. Dunbar worked as an attorney for the United States Senate Legislative Counsel’s Office as well as the Indiana Legislative Services Agency. She is a recipient of the 2021 Presidential Meritorious Senior Executive Service Rank Award.

Ms. Fenton is the Associate Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), an ICE directorate of more than 600 employees nationwide who uphold ICE’s professional standards through a multi-disciplinary approach within three program offices, Security, Inspections, and Investigations to promote organizational health, integrity, and accountability across the agency.

Ms. Fenton began her career with ICE in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, where she served in several capacities, including as the Chief of the Enforcement and Removal Operations Law Division. In that role, she led a division of experienced attorneys who provided advice and counsel to ERO and HSI on a variety of matters.

Charles Wall is the principal legal advisor for ICE’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor. As principal legal advisor, Mr. Wall oversees a staff of over 2,000 attorneys and support personnel who represent DHS in removal proceedings and provide accurate, timely, and complete legal advice and counsel to the agency’s senior officials and workforce.

From 2016 until his appointment as principal legal advisor, Mr. Wall served as deputy chief counsel for OPLA New Orleans, where he oversaw the work of a team of assistant chief counsel, managed the Enforcement and Removal Operations and Employment Law portfolios across multiple states, and supervised the worksite enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations certified undercover teams.

Mr. Wall began his career with ICE as an assistant chief counsel in Louisiana in 2012. As an assistant chief counsel, Mr. Wall prosecuted nondetained removal cases at the New Orleans office, served as an HSI embedded attorney, and traveled extensively throughout OPLA New Orleans’ area of responsibility, providing training, presentations and legal advice to ERO and HSI. Mr. Wall also prosecuted detained removal cases at the Oakdale office, where he served as an OPLA national security-designated attorney, securing removal orders in complex and high-profile national security immigration cases.

Prior to joining OPLA, Mr. Wall served as a prosecutor and senior assistant district attorney at the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office from 2009 to 2012. In this role, Mr. Wall and his team were responsible for securing countless major felony convictions against dangerous and violent criminals.

Mr. Wall holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School.

Beth Baden is Acting as the Chief Financial Officer for ICE, with her permanently serving as the ICE Budget Director since August 2023. Prior to joining ICE, Ms. Baden was the DHS Acting Budget Director from May 2022 – May 2023. In October of 2020 Ms. Baden joined the DHS Budget Division as the DHS Deputy Budget Director. In this role, she managed the internal operations of the Division and assisted the Budget Director in overseeing formulation, execution, and control and monitoring of the Department’s budget. Prior to accepting the position Ms. Baden served as the Deputy Budget Director at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2020 and as the Director of Resource Planning and Regional Operations for the EPA from 2016 to 2019. Prior to accepting her position at EPA, Ms. Baden worked at DHS from 2003 – 2016. While at DHS, she has served as the Director of Financial Management for FPS and the Chief of Business and Financial Operations for the Office of Biometric Identity Management at DHS. In these positions, she directed the formulation and execution of Agency and Program budgets, created and staffed organizational structures, and managed and transitioned budget and financial systems.

Ms. Baden is a native of the Washington DC area. She began her civil service career at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, where she served as an Economist, supporting the development and submission of the Army’s Military Construction Budget. While at the Corps of Engineers she led the military’s first program to privatize Army Family housing on military bases.

Ms. Baden received her bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, stand-up paddle boarding and relaxing on the beach.