Todd Lyons, the former director of the agency's Boston Field Office, will serve as acting ICE director. The announcement of two new leadership appointments within agency comes less than two months into the Trump administration and demonstrates the importance that the administration places on carrying out the president's deportation agenda.

Todd Lyons, the former assistant director of field operations for the agency's enforcement arm, will serve as acting ICE director.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said that she has appointed Todd Lyons as acting director of ICE.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced new immigration enforcement leadership as she pledged to step up polygraph tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about immigration operations.