Trump Admin touches the former Boston veteran to drive the agency to interim director

Former head of immigration and efforts to remove customs application in Boston He was promoted to lead the agency’s national efforts, according to the US Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem.

Noem announced on Sunday that Todd Lyons, the former director of the Boston ICE operations office, will hold the position of interim director of the Agency. Noem made the announcement on Sunday during a CBS News and via Social Media.

Along with Lyons’ promotion, Noem said that Madison Shehan, a former office, will hold the position of deputy director.

“Todd Lyons and Madison Sheahan are jobs, strong executors and responsible leaders who will lead men and ice women to reach the warrior of the American people to target, arrest and deport illegal foreigners,” Noem said in a Declaration shared by DHS.

Lyons led the operations to eliminate immigration and customs application from Boston – Boston Hero in short – under the Biden administration, but was promoted to conduct elimination operations for the entire agency in Middle of February.

As director of the Boston field office, Lyons was previously responsible for all removal and execution operations throughout New England. And the career with Ice started in 2007 as an hero agent who worked from Dallas.

Shehan is currently serving as Secretary of the Department of Wild Animals and Fisheries in LouisianaAnd previously served in “various leadership positions” under Noem, when the latter was a governor of South Dakote.

“In the last four years, our brave males and women have been prevented from doing their job – the ice needs a responsibility culture that was hungry under the Biden administration. With the support of President Trump, I call a new ICE leadership to provide results that President Trump and the American people rightly ask, ”Noem said in his statement.

Promotions come after previously the interim ice director, Caleb Vitello, was reinsured to an administrative role in February 21Against the background of rumors that the rate of immigrants removal was not in accordance with the expectations of the Trump administration. Vitello took over the agency in charge of supervision and execution President’s plan for mass deportations On the first day of Trump in office and spent a little over a month. Despite its removal, on Sunday night, Vitello was still listed as interim director of the ICE Leadership website.

The person serving as an ice directory is meant to be confirmed by the US SenateBut this was not the case of the agency throughout the majority of position history. Last Ice Director not acting was Sarah Saldañawhich was confirmed by the Senate in December 2014, after the selection by former president Barack Obama. In the 15 years at the workplace of the secretary assistant for immigration and the US customs application he was withdrawn as director of immigration and customs application in 2010, no candidate for the director, except for Saldaña, he saw the confirmation.

Despite at least twice trying to put on a permanent leader in position, shaking at the tip of the ice were under Trump during his first four -year term, when there were Nine ice directors in officeSome of them served less than two weeks. Trump’s official elections to drive the agency, current border tsar and former interim director Tom Homan and former interim director Ronald VitielloBoth were formally nominated, but never deleted the confirmation process.

Trump’s interim director Tae Johnson continued to serve more than two years under President Joe Biden, well over the 300 -day window allowed under underline Federal Law on 1998 vacant holiday reform. Biden’s candidate to take over the permanent agency, the sheriff in Harris county, Ed Gonzalez, Texas, withdrew from consideration After his nomination stopped in the Senate for more than a year against the background of rumors about an incident of domestic violence from the past, which Gonzale and his wife denied it.

Originally published: March 9, 2025 at 11:39 am EDT