Kenneth Genalo

Kenneth Genalo is a member of the Senior Executive Service and the acting Executive Associate Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mr. Genalo oversees ICE’s daily operations, leading over 20,000 employees—including over 6,800 criminal investigators in Homeland Security Investigations and 6,000 officers in Enforcement and Removal Operations. He oversees personnel assigned to more than 400 domestic and international offices and administers an annual budget greater than $8 billion.

Prior to serving as ICE’s acting deputy 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.