ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons To Resign

April 17, 2026 5:07 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin described Lyons as a great leader of ICE. “We wish him luck on his next opportunity in the private sector,” Mullin said in a statement. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson described Lyons in a post on X as “an American patriot who made our country safer.” The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press asking why he is resigning.