Ice Head Todd Lyons To Leave Agency

The acting caput of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been astatine nan center of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown, will time off nan national authorities astatine nan extremity of May, nan management said connected Thursday.

Todd Lyons will measurement down connected May 31 and modulation to nan backstage sector, according to a connection from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

ICE, which operates nether DHS, has faced disapproval during Trump’s renewed migration enforcement push, pinch allegations of free reside violations and denial of owed process rights.

The agency has besides travel nether scrutiny pursuing fatal shootings successful Minnesota involving national migration officers, including nan deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good earlier this year, which sparked wide protests.

Human authorities advocates opportunity nan incidents person contributed to concerns astir nationalist information and accountability successful enforcement operations, peculiarly successful number communities.

Trump says nan crackdown is basal to amended home information and curb forbidden immigration.

Earlier connected Thursday, prosecutors successful Minnesota charged an ICE supplier pinch battle for allegedly pointing his weapon astatine group successful a car on a road successful Minneapolis successful February.

Prosecutors said those marked nan first charges against an ICE serviceman complete actions related to nan Trump administration's migration crackdown successful Minnesota earlier this year. The accused supplier told authorities investigators that he had "feared for his safety."

Before being appointed acting main of ICE successful March 2025, Lyons was nan executive subordinate head of nan agency's Enforcement and Removal Operations directorate. In that role, he led efforts to apprehension and region migrants who came to nan U.S. illegally, according to his charismatic biography.

Lyons held different roles astatine nan Enforcement and Removal Operations directorate, including adjunct head of section operations and lawman adjunct head of occidental operations and nan southwest border, among different positions. He started pinch nan directorate arsenic an migration enforcement supplier successful Dallas.

Mullin called Lyons "a awesome leader."