Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a new leadership team to take the reins at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Noem picked Todd Lyons as acting ICE director and Madison Sheahan as his deputy.  ICE has had a top-level vacuum since former acting director Caleb Vitello was reassigned within ICE. That shake-up happened at a time when some were saying ICE deportations were lagging.

Noem said in a department release that the personnel moves mark “expanded”leadership” at ICE.  “For the past four years, our brave men and women of ICE were barred from doing their jobs — ICE needs a culture of accountability that it has been starved of under the Biden administration.”

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