ICE Director Says He Wants To Run Deportations Like Amazon Prime, 'But With Human Beings'

ICE Director Says He Wants To Run Deportations Like Amazon Prime, 'But With Human Beings'

While his boss at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, came hot off the heels of cosplaying again and demonstrating how not to hold a gun, the acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was modeling their human rights violations after online shopping. Republican President Donald Trump's unconfirmed—nor congressionally vetted—acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, shared his dreams for the agency during the 2025…

ICE Director Wants an Amazon-Like Mass Deportation System: ‘Prime, but With Human Beings’

Republished with permission from Arizona Mirror, by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages. “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (A…

By Gustavo J. Veiga, Latin American Summary, April 14, 2025. Todd Lyons, in charge of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), said: “The deportation process should be more similar to a method like Amazon’s, but with human deliveries.” A hard-handed announcement to immigrants with [...] The U.S. Entry. New massive deportations: Amazon’s human deliveries was first published in Latin American Summary.

Gustavo Veiga Todd Lyons, in charge of the Immigration and Customs Control Service, said: “The deportation process should be more similar to a method like Amazon’s, but with human deliveries.” In times of sophisticated cruelty that yields dividends, the U.S. speeds up its policy of mass deportations under a new modality. It’s the Amazon method, the multi-millionaire multi-millionaire multinational Jeff Bezos. It’s not an occurrence of the CEO wh…