US EditionActing US ICE head Todd Lyons to leave agency at end of May
Lyons will depart after leading deportation crackdowns, and DHS said he will move to the private sector after more than a year in the post.
- On Thursday, Acting Director Todd Lyons announced plans to leave the federal government this spring, creating a leadership void at the agency helm.
- Under Lyons, ICE secured $75 billion via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and he signed a May 2025 memo authorizing agents to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants.
- Democrats in Congress have criticized the agency's operations as inhumane, and protests erupted after fatal shootings of two Americans in Minnesota earlier this year.
- Finding a successor for Lyons will be one of the first major decisions for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who called Lyons "a great leader."
- ICE has operated without a Senate-confirmed director since early 2017, relying for nearly a decade on a rotating series of acting directors.
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Todd Lyons, who has served as interim director of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in the United States, presented his resignation from office.According to the reports, Todd Lyons sent a letter to the current Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, informing him of his unexpected decision to permanently resign from his position as head of ICE.Todd Lyons will leave the interim management of ICE; this will be his last da…
Acting ICE Director Suddenly RESIGNS
Another top official in the Trump administration has resigned. On Thursday, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons announced his resignation in a letter. Lyons has no hard feelings about the Trump administration and stated his resignation is due to family reasons. The New York Post had the full scoop on Lyon’s sudden resignation: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons submitted a resignation letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday and plans to step…
ICE acting Director Todd Lyons will resign at end of May, Homeland Security chief says
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday
Farewell to the Head of the Ice: the Director Who Led the Detentions of Migrants in the Us Resigned.
Todd Lyons, interim director of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), will leave office on May 31, 2026, as announced on Thursday by Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin. Lyons, a two-decade veteran of the agency, was primarily responsible for implementing the Trump administration’s policy of mass arrests since he assumed interim leadership in March 2025. His management was marked by an unprecedented increase in raids, mu…
ICE director Todd Lyons to leave agency after record deportations, controversy over actions
The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who oversaw the deportations of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, will leave the agency to join the private sector next month, according to multiple news reports.
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