Noem touches new ice leaders and moves to identify Leakers

By Christine Fernando | Associated Press

The internal security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced on Sunday a new leadership at the agency in charge of applying immigration, as it was also committed to intensify the lie detector tests on employees to identify those who could drain information about operations to Mass -Media.

“The authorities I have in the Department of Internal Security are wide and extended and I intend to use each of them to ensure that we respect the law, that we follow the procedures in force to keep people safe and that we make sure that we follow what President Trump He promised, “Noem said” Face The Nation “from CBS.

Although these polygraphic examinations are not usually admitted to judicial procedures, they are frequently used by federal law enforcement agencies and for national security permits.

“The Department of Internal Security is a national security agency,” said DHS spokesman, Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement. “We can, we should and will do staff.”

White House officials have previously expressed frustration with the pace of deportations, Blaming her part of Recent leaks Disclosure of cities in which the authorities planned to perform operations.

The Noem announcement regarding two new leadership appointments in the immigration and customs application in the US comes less than two months in the Trump administration and demonstrates the importance that the administration attaches to carry out the president’s deportation agenda.

Todd Lyons, the former assistant director of the field operations for the Agency’s application arm, will serve as interim ice director. Madison Sheahan, the secretary of the Department of Wild Lives and Fisheries in Louisiana and the former assistant of Noem, when he was a governor of the South Dakota, was registered to be the deputy director of the Agency.

Driving changes come after the ICE interim director was Reinsigated on February 21. Two other peaks Applying immigration Officials were reinsured on February 11th. These personnel changes came against the background of frustrations in Trump administration on the rhythm immigration arrests.

Noem too announced on Friday that the Agency identified and planned to sue two “Leakers of Information”.

On Sunday, she said that these two people “drained our application operations that we planned and were going to lead in several cities and expose vulnerabilities.” She said they may face up to 10 years in federal prison.

Originally published: March 9, 2025 to 13:13 PDT