Lyons says he is leaving after a long run
Todd Lyons has resigned as acting ICE director and will stay in the job until May 31 to help with the handoff, according to reports from Fox News and CBS News. Lyons was named acting director last March, and he has spent nearly 20 years at ICE. Before that, he served in the Air Force and worked as a city police officer. That is a fairly packed resume, which in federal service usually means the next step is either a new title, a new office, or a quiet move to the private sector with better coffee and fewer committee meetings. In this case, it is the private sector.
DHS praises the record
DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin said Lyons helped lead efforts to remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He also said Lyons revived an agency that, in his words, had not been allowed to do its job for four years. That is the kind of sentence Washington loves because it sounds decisive while also fitting neatly into a press release template. The basic message is clear enough: DHS wants this departure to look like a handoff from one active phase to the next, not a stumble at the door.
The replacement question is still open
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said Lyons oversaw roughly 584,000 ICE deportations since President Trump returned to office. Melugin also said Lyons plans to go into the private sector and spend more time with his family, and that he is close with Tom Homan and respected inside ICE. The only part not settled yet is who gets the job next, which is usually where bureaucracy shows its favorite skill, the slow reveal. Fox News and Melugin both posted the update on X:
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