Overview
- Acting Director Todd Lyons told senators ICE is tracking about 1.6 million people with final removal orders, including roughly 800,000 with criminal convictions.
- Lyons said those removal orders were issued by immigration judges within the Justice Department rather than by ICE or DHS.
- An internal DHS document reported by CBS indicated nearly 400,000 ICE arrests in the past year with about 14% tied to violent offenses, a portrayal DHS publicly challenged.
- The internal data showed less than 1% of arrests involved homicide accusations or convictions and under 2% related to sexual assault.
- Lyons reported 37 ICE use-of-force investigations over the past year, while CBP’s Rodney Scott said body‑camera footage from the Pretti shooting will be released and officials signaled Minnesota’s Operation Metro Surge is winding down.