ICE Acting Director Lyons to resign amid detainee-deaths hearings
TL;DR
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons will resign on May 31, 2026, DHS announced, coming just hours after a Capitol Hill hearing cited at least 44 detainee deaths in ICE custody since March 2025. Lyons oversaw aggressive immigration-enforcement actions linked to deadly incidents in Minnesota and Illinois, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin praised his leadership as Lyons moves to the private sector, in a broader DHS shakeup that included the replacement of Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary.
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