Todd Lyons
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83 appearances
15 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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Former Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons has denied his agency has a database of protesters.
Lyons recently departed his post, but after Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost and other Democrats posed additional questions earlier this year, Lyons wrote a response back in April that NPR is the first media outlet to review.
The letter indicates that ICE gives itself wide latitude to collect biographic and biometric data on people who agents believe are threatening officer safety or impeding operations.
Civil liberties advocates say it's the clearest official acknowledgement yet that ICE may be routinely gathering and preserving information on protesters and observers who are not arrested.
Jude Jaffe-Block, NPR News.
ICE's acting director Todd Lyons described for the first time his agency's use of spyware in a letter last week to Democratic House members.
It was a response to questions the lawmakers had sent six months ago.
Lyons said he greenlit ICE's use of tools to address challenges posed by transnational criminal groups and fentanyl traffickers using encrypted communications.
Privacy and civil liberties advocates say there are not sufficient regulations and transparency protocols to ensure ICE does not abuse spyware.
Foreign governments have used graphite in the past to target journalists and activists and access their encrypted messages.
Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
Apple News Today · Meet the MAHA influencer Trump wants as the “nation’s doctor” · 26 Feb 2026
podcast
The beat of the training was never removed.
The timeline was.
We took training from five days a week, eight hours a day, to six days a week, 12 hours a day.
In regards to every law enforcement operation, of course we go back, we look at lessons learned, we always look back.
You know, at the end, the ownership of that is mine.
I did give my condolences to the family and requested to meet them personally to give my condolences on behalf of the officers and agents involved.
VINCE · ICE Director Faces Congress as SAVE Act Ignites GOP Debate | Episode 223 · 11 Feb 2026
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Mm-hmm.
Ugh.
Considering your honorable service in the past and the dishonorable acts that those who have worked for you have conducted and the disgraceful statements that the leadership above you have said,
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