Trump Nominates Proven Law Enforcement Leader Lance Schroyer to Restore Order as ICE Director
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President Trump has nominated Lance Schroyer, a decorated former state trooper and trusted homeland security adviser, to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, promising a return to strong, law-and-order immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump on Saturday took decisive action to secure America's borders by nominating Lance Schroyer, a respected former Oklahoma state trooper and senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump, posting on his social-media platform, called on the Senate to move swiftly, emphasizing that Schroyer would be the first Senate-confirmed ICE director since 2017, a much-needed step to restore stability and leadership to the agency.
"Lance has firsthand experience getting illegal aliens off our streets and, just like me and our Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, he loves the men and women of ICE," Trump wrote, underscoring Schroyer’s commitment to protecting American communities from the dangers of illegal immigration.
Schroyer, a former major in the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety and a proud U.S. Marine, brings a wealth of law enforcement and military experience, even if he has not previously served within ICE. He currently advises Secretary Mullin and provided security for the senator in Washington, demonstrating his trustworthiness and dedication. ICE, which has been under the steady interim leadership of David Venturella since May, has faced unfair scrutiny after recent incidents, including the tragic killing of two American citizens by immigration agents in Minneapolis earlier this year. The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed director since an Obama-era official retired in January 2017, and Schroyer's nomination signals a return to strong, principled enforcement of America's immigration laws.
