Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to Step Down Later This Spring – RedState
Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March 2025, submitted his resignation on Thursday.
According to reports:
Lyons, a two-decade veteran of ICE, told colleagues he planned to leave the agency in June to spend more time with his family, including his sons, in Massachusetts, the officials said, requesting anonymity to discuss a decision that has not been publicly announced. Lyons is expected to join the private sector after leaving ICE.
[…]It is not immediately clear who will replace Lyons. For nearly a decade, ICE has had a dozen acting directors, without a Senate-confirmed leader since early 2017, at the end of the Obama administration. Lyons was named acting director of ICE in March 2025.
In a statement, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin congratulated the 20-year ICE veteran for his service and wished him well:
Director Lyons has been a great leader at ICE and a key player in helping the Trump Administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He revived an agency that had not been allowed to do its work for four years. Because of his leadership, American communities are safer.
Director Lyons has been a great leader at ICE and a key player in helping the Trump Administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He revived an agency that had not been allowed to do its work for four years. THANKS…
– Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS) April 17, 2026
Border Czar Tom Homan, in response to the news, called Lyon a “highly respected” leader who has “served selflessly” and under whose leadership “ICE has completed a record number of expulsions in the first year of this administration, despite unprecedented challenges, fulfilling the President’s promise to expel illegal aliens who have no right to be in the United States, particularly those who present risks to public safety or pose a threat to our national security.
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Similarly, Stephen Miller, Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security, said in a statement 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’s what Lyons did on Thursday:
LYONS: “HSI actually dismantled the largest gift card fraud case ever, and it was transnational gangs within the CCP that were sending this money back to military units in China…and it was unfortunately military-aged Chinese men who went in under the last administration.” pic.twitter.com/t5zyZSk3Ht
– Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2026
According to Mullin, Lyon’s last day will be May 31.
Editor’s Note: ICE and CBP continue to put themselves in harm’s way in order to protect American sovereignty and keep our streets safe.
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