{"id":577,"date":"2026-09-17T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:52:00","slug":"white-house-withdraws-nomination-of-lance-schroyer-as-ice-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"White House withdraws nomination of Lance Schroyer as ICE director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-17\/%20OklahomaHighwayPatrol_LanceSchroyer_091726.jpg\" alt><figcaption>President Donald Trump previously nominated Lance Schroyer, a longtime law enforcement officer from Oklahoma, to be his nominee for ICE director. (Oklahoma Highway Patrol)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The White House has withdrawn the\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">nomination of Lance Schroyer<\/span>\u00a0to be the next Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, according to a notice posted on the White House website Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. Former acting ICE Director\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Todd Lyons retired in May<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">David Venturella<\/span>, a former private prisons executive, has been running the agency since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper and close confidant of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, was nominated in June but faced pushback from the president&#8217;s base and Democrats over what they said was his lack of qualifications for the job. His nomination had stalled in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The White House did not give a reason for withdrawing Schroyer&#8217;s nomination. ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ICE&#8217;s more than $75 billion budget is the largest of any law enforcement agency in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The agency has become a focal point of the president&#8217;s second-term deportation push and the Republican-controlled Congress has given the agency the resources to carry out the administration&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ICE has come under scrutiny during its push to deport those in the country illegally for what some Democrats say are heavy-handed tactics and a rush to hire candidates that weren&#8217;t qualified for the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In nominating Schroyer in June, Trump touted his 29 years of service as a law enforcement officer in Oklahoma and said Schroyer will enforce the administration&#8217;s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Schroyer, who served in the Marine Corps, is currently a senior adviser to Mullin, a former senator from Oklahoma. Schroyer was Mullin&#8217;s pick to lead ICE, a source with knowledge of the decision told ABC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump previously nominated Lance Schroyer, a longtime law enforcement officer from Oklahoma, to be his nominee for ICE director. (Oklahoma Highway Patrol) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The White House has withdrawn the\u00a0nomination of Lance Schroyer\u00a0to be the next Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, according to a notice posted on the White House website Thursday.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}