US EditionActing US ICE head Todd Lyons to leave agency at end of May
Lyons will stay on through May 31 as DHS searches for a replacement after his tenure drew criticism over aggressive immigration enforcement, 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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ICE acting director Todd Lyons to step down after leading major enforcement push
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.
The resignation of the interim director of the ICE, Todd Lyons, has once again put the public eye on the immigration agency, which has been under the leadership of heads who have not been approved by the U.S. Senate for almost a decade.
ICE acting chief Todd Lyons to leave at end of May | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> The acting head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which has been at the heart of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will leave the federal government at the end of May, the Trump administration said on Thursday.
ICE Director Todd Lyons Will Resign in May.
Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is stepping down at the end of May, amid concerns that the Trump administration is backing off its original mass deportation goals.PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons will resign effective May 31, as announced by new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Lyons has been a central figure in Presid…
Acting ICE director to leave as controversies, funding questions continue to swirl around agency
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.
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