Trump's search for an ICE director after Todd Lyons stepped down
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
In April 2026 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that Todd Lyons, the of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who had overseen the administration's mass deportation plan, would step down that spring.[1]In June President Donald Trump said he would nominate Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and little-known adviser to Mullin, to lead the agency, but the White House withdrew the nomination in September.[2][3]
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In June President Donald Trump said he would nominate Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and little-known adviser to Mullin, to lead the agency, but the White House withdrew the nomination in September.[2][3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
16%0%
Apr 2026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 3 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (4 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Sep 14, 2026
13
22
6
41 of 480
9%
Jun 29, 2026
3
0
1
4 of 569
1%
Jun 22, 2026
4
10
4
18 of 415
4%
Apr 13, 2026
9
10
6
25 of 156
16%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Sep 16, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Border Report
Trump announced Schroyer's nomination on Truth Social,[4] putting a little-known candidate in line to lead the agency.[2] Less than three months later, the White House withdrew it.[3]
