Todd Lyons
Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Todd M. Lyons is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice and a master’s in criminal justice leadership from New England College. He joined the U.S. Air Force and served in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. He entered law enforcement in Florida after his military service.
Lyons joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2007, serving in the Enforcement and Removal Operations component in Dallas, Texas. He became the field office director’s chief of staff and later served as assistant field office director. He transitioned to the position of field office director for Boston, Massachusetts.
The Department of Homeland Security named Lyons as Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March 2025.
In the News…
In a recent interview, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons described how his agency is addressing human trafficking and U.S. employers who exploit illegal aliens.
The acting director said, “We’re not just focused on the illegal migrants or the people working illegally. We want to go ahead and [target] those American businesses that are illegally taking credit off the men and women that they have working for them. We are going after the businesses as well.”
He also debunked allegations of warrantless arrests by ICE agents, saying, “We hear all the time, from the left and the right, hey, we’ll support you if you have a criminal warrant, search warrant signed by a judge. And when you see a lot of the worksite that we’ve done, like the marijuana grow farm or the events on June 6 that led to the riots and the protesting of us in L.A., they were actual federal criminal warrants that ICE was going to a location that either had possible human trafficking, child exploitation, or some type of criminal event. That’s what ICE is focused on right now.”
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Did you pray for Acting Director Lyons today? You can let him know at:
The Honorable Todd Lyons, Acting Director
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
2707 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE
Washington, DC 20528
