Fox News⁠88%

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons submits resignation letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin ⁠60%

By Jasmine Baehr⁠65% Bill Melugin⁠0% Preston Mizell⁠0%

4/17/2026, 12:16:20 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 558 faulty-reasoning hits from 239 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (8,267 of 20,453 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 59.60% of the article peer group.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons submitted his resignation letter to Homeland Secretary Markwayne Mullin Thursday, writing that he will stay on through May 31 to assist the transition process, Fox News has confirmed. 
According to a source, Lyons said in his letter he wants to spend more time with his family, including his sons, who are "reaching a pivotal point in their lives," and that it's been a privilege to serve under President Donald Trump. 
"Director Lyons has been a great leader of ICE and key player in helping the Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists and gang members from American communities," Mullin said in a statement. 
"He jumpstarted an agency that had not been allowed to do its job for four years. 
Thanks to his leadership, American communities are safer." 
WHITE HOUSE BLASTS POLITICO REPORT ON ACTING ICE CHIEF HOSPITALIZATIONS AS ‘INACCURATE TRASH’ 
Lyons has overseen roughly 584,000 ICE deportations since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term last year. 
He has served with ICE for 20 years and was previously in special forces in the U.S. 
Air Force. 
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"We wish him luck on his next opportunity in the private sector. 
His last day is May 31, 2026," Mullin concluded. 
This is a developing story; check back later for updates. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.5%Jasmine Baehr: 3.2%Fox Nation: 4.1%Confirmation Bias15.5%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.9%Fox Nation: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 23.4%Jasmine Baehr: 3.8%Fox Nation: 3.6%Availability Heuristic23.4%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.5%Fox Nation: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.0%Fox Nation: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 3.7%Fox Nation: 3.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 29.7%Jasmine Baehr: 14.2%Fox Nation: 12.0%Framing Effect29.7%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.7%Fox Nation: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.7%Jasmine Baehr: 0.5%Fox Nation: 0.9%Status Quo Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 2.8%Fox Nation: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.0%Fox Nation: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 19.2%Jasmine Baehr: 8.0%Fox Nation: 10.9%Negativity Bias19.2%This article: 17.6%Jasmine Baehr: 3.1%Fox Nation: 2.7%Self-Serving Bias17.6%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.8%Fox Nation: 1.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 3.8%Fox Nation: 3.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 2.6%Fox Nation: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 17.2%Jasmine Baehr: 2.0%Fox Nation: 2.9%Halo Effect17.2%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.2%Fox Nation: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 4.2%Jasmine Baehr: 0.9%Fox Nation: 1.4%Recency Bias4.2%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 2.0%Fox Nation: 2.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.4%Fox Nation: 0.7%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.8%Jasmine Baehr: 6.7%Fox Nation: 5.1%Appeal to Authority13.8%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.1%Fox Nation: 1.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.0%Fox Nation: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.3%Jasmine Baehr: 5.3%Fox Nation: 6.1%Hasty Generalization11.3%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.8%Fox Nation: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.6%Fox Nation: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 19.2%Jasmine Baehr: 9.7%Fox Nation: 7.8%Appeal to Emotion19.2%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.8%Fox Nation: 1.3%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 10.0%Jasmine Baehr: 2.4%Fox Nation: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)10.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.2%Fox Nation: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.2%Fox Nation: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.1%Fox Nation: 2.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.7%Fox Nation: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.0%Fox Nation: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.1%Fox Nation: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.6%Fox Nation: 0.6%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 17.6%Jasmine Baehr: 1.5%Fox Nation: 1.7%Unattributed Quote17.6%This article: 5.4%Jasmine Baehr: 0.5%Fox Nation: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection5.4%This article: 19.2%Jasmine Baehr: 1.4%Fox Nation: 6.2%Biased Writer Voice19.2%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 2.0%Fox Nation: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 0.3%Fox Nation: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jasmine Baehr: 1.9%Fox Nation: 3.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 3.3%Jasmine Baehr: 0.8%Fox Nation: 1.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…3.3%

239 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers36%attributed speech153writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 37 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 42 words • 100.0% coverageMarkwayne Mullin • 33 words • 100.0% coverageMarkwayne Mullin • 16 words • 0.0% coverageMarkwayne Mullin • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageFox News • 8 words • 100.0% coverageMarkwayne Mullin • 12 words • 0.0% coverageMarkwayne Mullin • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Markwayne Mullin

73%flagged-word coverage
78 attributed words91% of attributed speech90% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Biased Writer Voice+33.8 ptsWriter: 8.5%Markwayne Mullin: 42.3%42.3%Unattributed Quote-27.5 ptsWriter: 27.5%Markwayne Mullin: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.5 ptsWriter: 8.5%Markwayne Mullin: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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