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Todd Lyons, who led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during some of the most volatile moments this year, has been hired by a defense contractor to help “on U.S. homeland defense strategy, interagency operations, and international security.”<\/p>

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In confirming the move, Navigators Security and Defense told NPR that it does not engage in lobbying activities, and that Lyons cannot engage with the Department of Homeland Security for a year due to federal laws.<\/p>

It said Lyons is the company’s new senior vice president for U.S. homeland security and international affairs.<\/p>

Lyons did not respond to NPR’s multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Navigators Security and Defense is a subsidiary of Navigators Global, a lobbying firm with clients including General Motors, the New York Jets, and GEO Group, a private prison contractor running immigration detention centers across the country, including Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, N.J.<\/u><\/p>

“Lyons brings more than three decades of law enforcement leadership and military expertise in support of Navigators Security and Defense clientele,” the company said.<\/p>

Navigators Global has represented NPR and the NPR Network to Congress since 2011.<\/p>

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A former GEO Group executive now runs ICE. The company’s government ties run deep<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Lyons served as ICE’s acting director from March 2025 to May 2026.<\/p>

During his tenure, ICE agents were tasked with carrying out some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement operations, including big, made-for-TV crackdowns in Chicago<\/u> and Minneapolis<\/u>.<\/p>

Lyons faced intense pressure to meet a 3,000-person daily arrest quota imposed by the White House. Despite the agency’s aggressive tactics to accomplish this \u2014 including arresting immigrants inside immigration courts<\/u> \u2014 the quota was never met.<\/p>

Lyons stepped down last month.<\/p>

He was replaced by David Venturella, a veteran of ICE who most recently worked for GEO Group<\/u> in multiple roles, including as senior vice president of client relations and, more recently, as a paid consultant.<\/p>

The GEO Group has seen a business boom as it cultivated close ties to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

In 2025, GEO Group made $254 million in income<\/u> \u2014 that’s a 700% increase from 2024. In a news release issued last month <\/u>celebrating GEO Group’s 2026 first quarter results, Chairman George Zoley said 2025 “was the most successful period for new business wins in our Company’s history.”<\/p>

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