Acting ICE director to leave as controversies, funding questions continue to swirl around agency

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Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month.

Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.