{"id":730017,"date":"2026-06-27T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730017\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:38:09","slug":"trump-says-he-is-nominating-former-oklahoma-state-trooper-lance-schroyer-to-be-ice-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730017\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he is nominating former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to be ICE director"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> announced Saturday that he nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to take over as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE Director,\u201d Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. <\/a>\u201cLance has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma.\u201d <\/p>\n

Schroyer, who currently serves as a senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, will replace Todd Lyons. Lyons took over the role in March 2025, during the ramp-up of Trump\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, before leaving the post <\/a>last month. <\/p>\n

Three sources familiar with Trump\u2019s choice to nominate Schroyer told NBC News that Mullin has been pushing for him to lead the agency for some time. <\/p>\n

Schroyer has local law enforcement experience, but not specifically with ICE, which could come as a surprise to ICE rank-and-file officers and agents, two sources said. <\/p>\n

A DHS official said current acting director David Venturella<\/a> will continue to serve until Schroyer is confirmed.<\/p>\n

Mullin congratulated Schroyer Saturday, writing in a statement that Trump \u201cmade a great pick.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWith over 29 years of law enforcement experience, Lance will play a vital role in helping deliver on the President\u2019s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens,\u201d Mullin said in the statement. <\/p>\n

No acting ICE director has been confirmed by the Senate since the second Obama administration. On Saturday, both Trump and Mullin urged the Senate to swiftly confirm Schroyer to the role. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Senate must CONFIRM Lance, IMMEDIATELY \u2014 Do not delay,\u201d the president wrote in his post. <\/p>\n

Schroyer\u2019s nomination comes on the heels of two Supreme Court victories for Trump\u2019s anti-immigration agenda this week. <\/p>\n

The high court ruled Thursday to remove the legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants <\/a>in the U.S., clearing a path for their deportation. That same day, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration\u2019s bid to make it easier to regulate the entry of asylum seekers <\/a>at the U.S.-Mexico border. <\/p>\n

Trump on Saturday highlighted Schroyer\u2019s expected role in carrying out the president\u2019s promise for large-scale deportations and immigration crackdowns across the U.S. <\/p>\n

\u201cImportantly, Lance Schroyer has what it takes to DETAIN AND DEPORT Illegal Alien Criminals,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHe is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst.\u201d <\/p>\n

Under the second Trump administration, ICE and Border Patrol tactics have resulted in aggressive clashes in cities across the U.S., including in Minneapolis, where Renee Good<\/a> and Alex Pretti<\/a> were killed in separate shootings by agents. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, the watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security announced it was launching two new reviews <\/a>related to ICE\u2019s handling of detained migrants. <\/p>\n

The reviews, which will examine both an increase in deaths of ICE detainees and whether ICE facilities are following proper use-of-force standards, come after there were 20 deaths in ICE detention so far this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to take over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-730017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}