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Trump Nominates Former Oklahoma Trooper Lance Schroyer as ICE Director
President Donald Trump announced the nomination on Saturday and called for immediate Senate confirmation. Schroyer would succeed acting director David Venturella at the agency that has lacked a Senate-confirmed leader since the second Obama administration.
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President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will nominate Lance Schroyer to serve as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Schroyer is a former Oklahoma state trooper and United States Marine with more than 29 years of law enforcement experience in the state.
David Venturella is currently performing the duties of ICE director. Schroyer, who serves as a senior advisor to the Homeland Security secretary, would succeed Venturella upon confirmation. The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed director since the second Obama administration.
Schroyer previously led a deportation campaign in Oklahoma under the ICE-partnered 287(g) program. Todd Lyons left the ICE director post last month after taking over in March 2025. Two Supreme Court rulings this week removed legal protections for some Haitian and Syrian immigrants and eased restrictions on asylum processing at the southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog announced two new reviews examining deaths in ICE detention and use-of-force standards at agency facilities.
