Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to Step Down Later

Todd Lyons, who has been the appearing director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March 2025, submitted his resignation on Thursday.

According to reviews:

Lyons, a two-decade ICE veteran, told colleagues that he is planning to depart the company in June to spend more time with household, including his sons, in Massachusetts, the officers said, requesting anonymity to talk about a transfer that has not been publicly announced. Lyons is predicted to be a part of the non-public sector after leaving ICE.

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It’s not immediately clear who would change Lyons. For practically a decade, ICE has had a dozen appearing administrators, missing a Senate-confirmed head since early 2017, at the end of the Obama administration. Lyons was named appearing ICE director in March 2025.

In a assertion, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin praised the 20-year ICE veteran for his service and wished him nicely:

Director Lyons has been a great chief of ICE and key participant in serving to the Trump administration take away murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He jump-started an company that had not been allowed to do its job for 4 years. Thanks to his management, American communities are safer. 

Director Lyons has been a great chief of ICE and key participant in serving to the Trump administration take away murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He jumpstarted an company that had not been allowed to do its job for 4 years. Thanks…

— Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS) April 17, 2026

Border czar Tom Homan, responding to the news, called Lyons a “highly respected” chief who “served selflessly” and under whose management “ICE achieved a record number of removals in the first year of this Administration, despite unprecedented challenges, delivering on the President’s promise to deport illegal aliens who have no right to be in the U.S., especially those that are public safety risks or pose a threat to our national security.” 

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Similarly, Stephen Miller, Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, said in a assertion to Fox News that “Todd is a phenomenal patriot and dedicated leader who has been at the center of President Trump’s historic efforts to secure our homeland and reverse the Democrats’ sinister border invasion.”

In addition to submitting his resignation, here is what Lyons was doing on Thursday:

LYONS: “HSI actually broke the largest gift card fraud case ever, and it was from transnational gangs within the CCP that were sending that money back to military units in China…and it was unfortunately military age Chinese males that entered under the last administration.” pic.twitter.com/t5zyZSk3Ht

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2026

According to Mullin, Lyons’ last day will likely be May thirty first.

Editor’s Note: ICE and CBP continue to put themselves in hurt’s method in order to shield America’s sovereignty and to keep our streets protected. 

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