President Trump announced Saturday he is nominating retired Oklahoma State Trooper Lance Schroyer as the new ICE director, calling him a patriot with experience locking up the “worst of the worst.”
”Lance has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, noting he won all of the state’s counties in three successive elections.
The agency hasn’t had a director confirmed by the Senate since 2017, amid angry partisan clashes over immigration enforcement.
Trump called Schroyer a “PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst, including spearheading 287g Law Enforcement partnerships with ICE!”
He noted Schoyer’s firsthand experience getting “Illegal Aliens OFF our streets” and said just like Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, “he LOVES the men and women of ICE.”
Mullin, who the Senate confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, stepped in after Trump forced out embattled predecessor Kristi Noem.
Former acting ICE director Todd Lyons announced his resignation in April, following the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January amid anti-ICE demonstrations.
Trump called on the Senate — in recess through the week of July 4th — to confirm Schroyer immediately.
A LinkedIn page in his name has no posts, activity or personal information beyond his title; news reports from 2015 and 2016 document Schroyer responding to traumatic highway car crashes.
