WASHINGTON: The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Todd Lyons, will leave his post at the agency charged with enforcing US President Donald Trump&#39;s anti-immigrant crackdown in May, the Homeland Security Secretary announced Thursday. Todd Lyons &quot;has been a great leader of ICE,&quot; said Markwayne Mullin in a statement, adding that his last day would be May 31 and wishing him luck in his &quot;next opportunity in the private sector.&quot; Lyons was appointed acting director of ICE by Trump in March 2025. He was a &quot;key player&quot; in the US president&#39;s anti-immigration drive, Mullin said. Mullin, who was appointed just a few weeks ago following the dismissal of his predecessor, Kristi Noem, did not give a reason for Lyon&#39;s departure or announce a replacement. Anti-immigrant raids The federal police has come under fire for carrying out anti-immigrant raids, with two US citizen protesters shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this year. Lyons&#39;s departure comes a month after Gregory Bovino, the face of Trump&#39;s immigration raids, resigned from the US Border Patrol after outcry over violent raids in Minneapolis. At a Department of Homeland Security oversight hearing in February, Lyons defended the law enforcement agency&#39;s work. &quot;The president tasked us with mass deportation, and we are fulfilling that mandate,&quot; he told Congress.

Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testifies in the Rayburn House Office Building on April 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. 

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Todd Lyons, acting head of ICE, will step down on May 31 to move to the private sector amid controversy over aggressive immigration enforcement under Donald Trump.


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