Todd Lyons has risen from running the New England field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to landing the top job at the agency in Washington D.C.

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.

Passed in 2019, the Keep Washington Working Act restricts the ability of local police to participate in the enforcement of federal immigration law.

State officials say an agricultural eastern county stopped working to comply with Washington’s immigration law after Donald Trump took office again.