White House withdraws Lance Schroyer’s nomination to lead ICE

The ex-Oklahoma state trooper’s nomination had stalled in the Senate as ICE faced growing scrutiny over its operations.The White House has withdrawn the nomination of former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead Immigration-and-customs-enforcement" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="6751" data-entity-type="organization">United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), without giving a reason for the decision.The withdrawal was announced on Thursday. Schroyer, a senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, was nominated by President Donald Trump in June but had yet to receive a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.Recommended Stories list of 1 itemlist 1 of 1Calls grow for investigation after ICE attacks protestersend of listRepublican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who chairs the committee, had refused to hold a hearing until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided information he had requested about civilian deaths during ICE enforcement operations.“I don’t have a concern with who the nominee was. I had asked them to give me an update on the internal investigation into civilian deaths,” Paul told The Associated Press news agency.Paul said he had intended to hold a hearing on Schroyer’s nomination but learned that it had been withdrawn when the White House made the decision public.ICE remains under scrutinySchroyer had little experience in Immigration and had not previously worked at ICE or led a major law enforcement agency. Two US officials told the Reuters news agency when he was nominated that he had been a surprise choice for the position.When announcing Schroyer’s nomination in June, Trump said on Truth Social that he had “firsthand experience getting Illegal Aliens OFF our streets” and called on the Senate to confirm him “IMMEDIATELY”.