ICE deputy director resigns from agency to run for Congress

Madison Sheahan, the lawman manager of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is resigning from her relation to tally for Congress successful Ohio, aggregate national instrumentality enforcement sources told Fox News.

The announcement was made internally this morning, the sources added. Sheahan is moving for Ohio's 9th Congressional District, presently represented by Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who assumed bureau successful 1983 and is the longest serving pistillate successful Congress. Kaptur was re-elected successful November 2024, contempt galore of the counties successful the territory voting successful favour of President Donald Trump that year.

"No Excuses. Let's Get It Done," work a connection connected Sheahan's run website. "Former ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan is warring to support American jobs, American paychecks, and American values successful Ohio's 9th Congressional District."

The run website describes Sheahan as, "a elder authorities enforcement and nationalist person successful nationalist administration, instrumentality enforcement, and governmental operations, astir precocious serving arsenic Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Madison Sheahan attends a property league astir "Operation Midway Blitz," an migration enforcement campaign, from a hangar successful Gary, Indiana, connected Oct. 30, 2025.  (Leah Millis/Reuters)

|In this role, she led 1 of the nation’s largest national instrumentality enforcement agencies, overseeing strategy and execution successful enactment of borderline security, interior enforcement, and the regularisation of law," the website said. "Under the enactment of President Donald J. Trump, Sheahan was entrusted with helping usher ICE done a play of historical transformation."

"During her tenure, the bureau expanded from astir 20,000 employees and a $10 cardinal fund into an $85 cardinal enactment of much than 30,000 professionals. Most notably, Sheahan managed the hiring of 12,000 caller instrumentality enforcement officers wrong 180 days," it besides said.

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