President Donald Trump introduced Saturday that he’s nominating Lance Schroyer, a longtime regulation enforcement officer from Oklahoma, to be his nominee for Immigration and Customs Enforcement director.
In his announcement, Trump touted Schroyer’s 29 years of service as a regulation enforcement officer in Oklahoma and mentioned Schroyer will implement the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
President Donald Trump introduced that he’s nominating Lance Schroyer, a longtime regulation enforcement officer from Oklahoma, to be his nominee for ICE director.
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“He’s a PATRIOT with actual operational expertise, and confirmed chief with DECADES of expertise locking up the worst of the worst,” Trump mentioned in a social media publish.
Schroyer, who beforehand served as an Oklahoma State Trooper and a U.S. Marine, at present serves as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Safety.
David Venturella has been the acting ICE director since he took over for Todd Lyons, who stepped down from the function on Could 31.
ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017.
The doorway to a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) detention facility is seen following a capturing, on September 25, 2025 in Dallas, Texas.
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Democrats, immigration advocates and native officers decried ICE ways, together with allegations of racial profiling and aggressive tactics.
Scrutiny of ICE intensified after the capturing deaths of two U.S. residents, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January by the hands of immigration officers.
Todd Lyons, the performing ICE director in the course of the first yr of Trump’s second time period, resigned in Could, saying it was to spend extra time together with his household.
The announcement of Lyons’ departure got here greater than a month after Trump fired former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
