Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem tapped a brand new director and deputy director to steer U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as she works to reinstate a tradition of outcomes and accountability beneath President Donald Trump’s administration.
Noem introduced the appointments on Sunday, saying Todd Lyons will function appearing ICE director, and Madison Sheahan will function the deputy director of ICE.
“For the previous 4 years, our courageous women and men of ICE have been barred from doing their jobs—ICE wants a tradition of accountability that it has been starved of beneath the Biden Administration,” Noem stated. “Todd Lyons and Madison Sheahan are work horses, robust executors, and accountable leaders who will lead the women and men of ICE to realize the American folks’s mandate to focus on, arrest and deport unlawful aliens.”
In a press launch, Homeland Safety stated Lyons at the moment serves because the appearing government affiliate director of ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO).
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Todd Lyons was chosen to function the appearing director of ICE. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald by way of Getty Photos)
He has served in a wide range of different roles inside ICE, together with assistant director of subject operations for ERO, the place he oversaw all 25 subject workplaces and home operations throughout the U.S. Previous to that, Lyons labored because the ERO subject workplace director (FOD) within the Boston subject workplace, the place he oversaw ERO actions in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont.
Lyons began his profession in federal service in 1993 as a member of the U.S. Air Pressure, and in 1999, he went into civilian legislation enforcement in Florida. Lyons joined ERO as an ICE agent in Dallas, Texas, in 2007.
Sheahan and Noem have labored collectively previously, although most lately the brand new deputy director of ICE has served because the secretary of the Louisiana Division of Wildlife and Fisheries, the place she oversaw a $280 million price range and led a staff of over 800 workers throughout wildlife, fisheries and enforcement divisions.
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Madison Sheahan was tapped by Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem to function the deputy director of ICE. (Photograph by Sean Gardner/Getty Photos for Elevating Cane’s)
She helped set up the Particular Operations Group contained in the enforcement division, which locations precedence on public security via historic partnerships with federal, state and native legislation enforcement businesses when main occasions like Mardi Gras and the Tremendous Bowl happen in The Massive Straightforward.
Sheahan additionally suggested Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry in her function.
Previous to that, she labored for then-South Dakota Gov. Noem in varied management positions, together with the state Republican Get together and on particular initiatives aimed towards advancing Noem’s agenda.
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Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem joins an ICE raid in New York Metropolis. Noem stated communities will probably be safer due to focused raids that go after felony unlawful immigrants. (Division of Homeland Safety)
Sheahan and Lyons didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for feedback on their new positions.
Noem served as South Dakota governor from January 2019 to January 2025, when she was sworn-in because the nation’s eighth Division of Homeland Safety chief.
She was the fourth member of the Trump administration to realize approval from the Senate, and is main the division at a time when securing the border and tackling unlawful immigration are high priorities for the brand new administration.
The administration has taken quite a few actions to safe the border, together with deploying the navy, restarting wall development and ending Biden-era parole packages.
