Noem Taps New Leadership at ICE, Moves to Identify Leakers Within DHS

Noem named Todd Lyons as the acting ICE director and Madison Sheahan as the deputy director.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks in Washington in a file photograph. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on March 9 appointed new leadership at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and said that they would continue to use polygraph tests to identify information leakers within the department.

Noem named Todd Lyons as acting ICE director and Madison Sheahan as deputy director. Lyons currently serves as the acting executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.