A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is seen in Park Ridge, In poor health., Sept. 19, 2025.
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President Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer, who served as an Oklahoma state trooper and with the U.S. Marines, as the following director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The nomination follows months of scrutiny over the company’s aggressive immigration ways and after Todd Lyons resigned as performing ICE director on the finish of Could. David Venturella, a longtime ICE official and former government of a personal jail company, has been main the company in an performing capability since June.
On his Reality Social platform, Trump described Schroyer as a “PATRIOT with actual operational expertise, and confirmed chief with DECADES of expertise locking up the worst of the worst.”
“He LOVES the women and men of ICE,” Trump added.
If confirmed, Schroyer would companion with a fellow Oklahoman to implement the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown. The Division of Homeland Safety, which oversees ICE, is led by Secretary Markwayne Mullin, a former congressman for Oklahoma.
Mullin praised Schroyer’s nomination on the social media platform X.
“With over 29 years of regulation enforcement expertise, Lance will play a significant position in serving to ship on the President’s mandate from the American folks to focus on, arrest, and deport unlawful aliens,” he wrote.
Schroyer presently serves because the senior adviser to Mullin and oversees coordination of immigration enforcement, in keeping with a DHS assertion.
Echoing Trump, Mullin known as for a fast Senate affirmation for Schroyer. ICE hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed director for the reason that Obama administration.
