In a quiet reversal that speaks to the tensions between executive urgency and legislative accountability, the White House withdrew its nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement before he ever faced a Senate hearing. Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper with no immigration background, became a casualty not of partisan opposition but of a single senator's insistence that questions about civilian deaths be answered before governance could proceed. The episode surfaces a deeper truth: that institutions operating at great speed and scale require scrutiny proportional to their p
White House withdraws ICE director nominee amid agency scrutiny
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed multiple people during enforcement operations, including two US citizens in Minneapolis.