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President Donald Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state trooper to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency tasked with carrying out the president\u2019s mass deportation campaign.<\/p>

Read more President can fire independent agency heads without cause, Supreme Court rules<\/a><\/p>

Richard \u201cLance\u201d Schroyer\u2019s nomination on June 27 comes on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed the Trump administration to strip legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them to deportation.<\/p>

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\u201cLance Schroyer has what it takes to DETAIN AND DEPORT Illegal Alien Criminals \u2026,\u201d Trump wrote on social media June 27. \u201c…he LOVES the men and women of ICE.\u201d<\/p>

He will have to be confirmed by the Senate and, if he is, he will be the first Senate-confirmed ICE director in 11 years.<\/p>

The current acting director of ICE is David Venturella, a longtime federal immigration official and former vice president of the private prison company GEO that rakes in billions through federal contracts it holds to detain immigrants at facilities across the United States.<\/p>

Former acting ICE Director Todd Lyons stepped down in May following the shooting of two U.S. citizens by immigration officials in Minneapolis earlier this year.<\/p>

$70 billion in new funding<\/strong><\/p>

Schroyer will come into an agency that Congress recently funded through fiscal 2029 at $70 billion, not including a separate funding stream of billions Republicans included in the president\u2019s signature tax cuts and spending bill in 2025.<\/p>

Schroyer does not have much experience working for the Department of Homeland Security, but serves as an adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who previously served as Oklahoma\u2019s U.S. senator.<\/p>

Schroyer also worked to establish Oklahoma\u2019s law enforcement partnership with the federal government to assist with immigration enforcement through the 287(g) program. He served in law enforcement for nearly 30 years.<\/p>

Read more President can fire independent agency heads without cause, Supreme Court rules<\/a><\/p>

Mullin noted Schroyer\u2019s work with the 287(g) program.<\/p>

\u201cLance is coming straight from the operational field where he ran large-scale operations and worked alongside state and federal partners to remove illegal aliens from Oklahoma under the 287(g) program,\u201d Mullin said in a statement. \u201cWith over 29 years of law enforcement experience, Lance will play a vital role in helping deliver on the President\u2019s mandate from the American people to target, arrest, and deport illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>

Oklahoma praise<\/strong><\/p>

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt also praised the announcement, along with Schroyer\u2019s career in law enforcement.<\/p>

\u201cHe was a huge asset to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and now he\u2019ll continue to make us proud at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,\u201d Stitt said in a statement. \u201cOklahoma yet again leads the nation. We have consistently supported President Trump\u2019s work to keep our border secure, and we have led in enforcement actions against those here illegally who engage in criminal behavior.\u201d<\/p>

Schroyer also received the Chief\u2019s Award for his actions in 2015 when he assisted a woman whose car crashed outside his district in the jurisdiction of the Tulsa Police Department.<\/p>

\u201cHe found her face down with her head pinned between the end of the dashboard and the passenger door. The woman was choking and was unable to speak,\u201d according to a press release from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.<\/p>

Schroyer called first responders and stayed with the woman, according to the release. \u201cIn order to enable her to breathe, he moved the car seats and kicked open a jammed door in order to reposition the woman allowing her to breathe,\u201d the release said.<\/p>

For his actions, he received the Chief\u2019s Award, \u201chonoring his dedication to the protection of lives and service to the public.\u201d<\/p>

Read more One federal research network got a reprieve. Others may not<\/a><\/p>

Oklahoma Voice Editor Janelle Stecklein contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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