Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was hospitalized at least twice due to “stress-related issues” while executing the president’s migrant crackdown, a new report alleges.
Administration officials tell Politico that the strain put on Lyons, in part by the White House and its top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, caused the 52-year-old to “struggle to make key decisions for the agency.”
“He would be visibly upset and struggling to make the decisions that were needed to be made by the director,” a former DHS official told Politico.
Lyons’ alleged indecisiveness was corroborated by others in Homeland Security. One current and two former officials also told the site that Lyons “often takes a long time to make decisions, forcing his deputies to do more work.”
Those same officials attributed Lyons’ stress, which saw him “break out into a full sweat, with his face turning deep red,” to pressure from the White House.
Miller “yelled at Lyons during morning phone calls with administration officials,” according to four people who were on the calls.
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