President Trump has nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marines veteran, to serve as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a move coming after months of scrutiny of ICE tactics and a leadership shake-up follow
President Trump’s latest move lands in the middle of a storm around U.S. immigration enforcement: he has nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper who also served with the U.S. Marines, to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The nomination follows months of scrutiny over ICE’s aggressive tactics. It also comes after Todd Lyons resigned as acting ICE director at the end of May. leaving David Venturella—a longtime ICE official and former executive of a private prison corporation—to lead the agency in an acting capacity since June.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump described Schroyer as a “PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst.” Trump added, “He LOVES the men and women of ICE.”
If Schroyer is confirmed. Trump would be pairing him with another top Oklahoma figure in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, is led by Secretary Markwayne Mullin, a former congressman for Oklahoma. Mullin praised the nomination on the social media platform X.
“With over 29 years of law enforcement experience, Lance will play a vital role in helping deliver on the President’s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens,” Mullin wrote. Mullin also called for a quick Senate confirmation for Schroyer.
Schroyer currently serves as the senior adviser to Mullin and oversees coordination of immigration enforcement, according to a DHS statement. Under the nomination timeline. the Senate would be the next gate—an especially consequential one because ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administration.
The immediate stakes are clear: Schroyer would step into an agency already operating under heightened attention, with acting leadership in place since June and a public push for a fast confirmation.
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So they’re just gonna fast-track another guy to “lock up” people? Sounds like more chaos.
I mean an ex trooper and Marines is like… what, the best fit for immigration paperwork? Also ICE tactics been under a microscope forever so why rush it now. I saw “deport illegal aliens” and that’s basically all I needed to read.
Wait, did ICE already have a director confirmed? The article says no Senate-confirmed director since Obama but also says acting since June. So is this like replacing the acting one or changing the whole agency vibe. Todd Lyons resigned end of May… but David Venturella has been leading since June right? Confusing timeline but okay.
Markwayne Mullin sounds like he’s from Oklahoma so of course he’s praising it. “Target, arrest, and deport” is just police talk, not real problem solving. And “loves the men and women of ICE” like that’s supposed to reassure everybody. I swear these guys always say PATRIOT but then somehow people end up getting rounded up wrong.