ICE Acting Director Steps Down Amid Controversy

0:00It's April 17th. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is stepping down at the end of May, wrapping up his short, but intense run leading the agency's push on mass. Deportations under President Trump. He took the acting role back in March 2025 and oversaw a big cash boost from Congress, which fueled more hires, bigger detention, sinners, and ramped up arrests nationwide. Optrum officials like Stephen Miller and Borders are Tom Homan, are praising Lyons as a patriot who may community safer, but public views tell A. Different story. A February poll showed most Americans, even independence, see ICE unfavorably amid controversies like deadly clashes in cities such as Chicago. Just this week, Lyons testified before a House subcommittee defending ICE's budget while facing heat overshootings of two protesters by federal officers and he dodged calls for apologies citing ongoing probes.

1:02With new DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin at the helm after a leadership shake-up, ICE stays loaded with funds, but mired in fights over enforcement, powers and congressional funding battles ahead.