Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda — strain that has caused him to struggle to make key decisions for the agency, according to two current and two former administration officials.
The hospitalizations took place over the last seven months. In one incident in December, Lyons’ security detail drove him to a hospital in Washington and he was admitted overnight, according to one former and two current administration officials. During an episode in September, the three people said Lyons was hospitalized for at least one night.
In a separate incident in Los Angeles over the summer, Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials that one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, according to one current and one former official.
This is actually a very; very sad place for America to be. Apart from the acting ICE head being in this predicament, how many really decent heads of American departments are in the same situation because of legitimate moral and personal philosophy conflicts with their direct orders under the Trump regime? If (when) this becomes a known problematic issue with the top staff in the military, how quickly will military morale and discipline change?
Why would you feel bad for him? He is stressed because trump is pressuring him to imprison more legal and non-legal immigrants and he can’t come up with the numbers.
They don’t. They feel bad for the good government workers we don’t hear about having these levels of stress over moral conflicts with the administration.