White House Withdraws Nomination of Lance Schroyer to Lead ICE

The White House withdrew the nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol major with no immigration enforcement experience, to direct ICE — three months after announcing it and without the Senate ever holding a hearing. Schroyer had served on then-Senator Mullin’s security detail and is now a senior adviser to DHS Secretary Mullin, who had pushed for him. Senate Homeland Security chair Rand Paul never scheduled a hearing; NBC News reported, citing a person familiar, that Paul held it up over unanswered questions about federal agents’ shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, while Paul’s office said he did not oppose the nomination. No reason was given for the withdrawal and no replacement was named; ICE has had no Senate-confirmed director since 2017 and remains under acting director David Venturella.