US EditionActing US ICE head Todd Lyons to leave agency at end of May
Lyons will exit after overseeing about 584,000 deportations and a major hiring push, while replacement plans remain unclear, officials said.
- 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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Appointed by Donald Trump, Todd Lyons held the position of Acting Director during anti-migrant operations in democratic-led cities.
Under his leadership, the U.S. Immigration Department conducted mass arrests and deportations. ICE leader Todd Lyons (52) now resigns. In a statement, Markwayne Mullin (48), U.S. Minister of Internal Security, described Lyons as "great leader of ICE and key figure in supporting the Trump administration in removing murderers, rapists, paedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities." Lyons" last day at ICE was May 31st, Mullin…
Todd Lyons was regarded as a central implementer of Trump's migration policy agenda. Now, at the end of May, he quit his post as director of the ICE immigration agency.
Lyons officially left office on May 31st. He was in front of the ICE during the mass raids that took place in Minneapolis, where there were several protests, violence and two deaths.
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