At the 2025 Border Security Expo, ICE Dir. Says Deportation Should be “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

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Todd Lyons is the Acting Director of ICE. This week, he headed to Phoenix to speak at the 2025 Border Security Expo. Here is the Arizona Mirror’s take on his remarks:

The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

In addition, the paper reports:

Lyons said that he hopes that they can infuse artificial intelligence into the process to “free up bed space” and “fill up airplanes” taking immigrants back to their home countries at a faster rate.

-KitJ