Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is leaving the Department of Homeland Security - BERITAJA

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is leaving the Department of Homeland Security, the caller caput of the DHS said Thursday.

"Thanks to his leadership, American communities are safer," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said successful a statement. "We wish him luck connected his adjacent opportunity successful the backstage sector."

Lyons' past time will beryllium May 31, Mullin said.

Mullin did not authorities a logic for Lyons’ departure successful his statement.

Lyons has been the acting caput of ICE during the agency’s arguable wide migration crackdowns that targeted Democrat-run cities nether the Trump administration.

The crackdowns generated furious protests, and 2 U.S. citizens were fatally changeable by national agents successful Minneapolis earlier this year.

Trump appointed Lyons arsenic acting head of the agency successful March of 2025, succeeding Caleb Vitello who was reassigned.

President Donald Trump appointed Mullin, a U.S. legislator and governmental ally, successful March aft firing Kristi Noem from the role. Mullin was confirmed by the Senate connected March 23.

Trump promised large-scale deportations of group successful the state illegally during his statesmanlike campaign, but the wide crackdowns angered immoderate who said agents were sweeping up longstanding residents alternatively than convulsive criminals.

At a legislature proceeding successful February, Lyons said ICE made 379,000 arrests during the first twelvemonth of the Trump management and removed complete 475,000 group from the U.S.

Lyons astatine that proceeding declined to apologize for the fatal shootings of the 2 U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, successful Minneapolis. They were killed successful abstracted incidents successful January.