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Acting ICE director defends agency's focus on targeting criminal illegal aliens, details threat to agents

close Video Acting ICE director says he warned elected officials not to stoke ‘dangerous rhetoric’ Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons discusses the anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis and the threat federal agents face on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons said Sunday that local governments' sanctuary policies and refusals to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement are forcing agents into communities, increasing risks for officers and straining law enforcement operations nationwide. "You would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street [in sanctuary jurisdictions] focused on the criminal illegal-alien mission if they would just turn people over to us.

Acting ICE director defends agency's focus on targeting criminal illegal aliens, details threat to agents

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Key Highlights

  • That's the key," Lyons said on "Sunday Morning Futures."Lyons said 70% of illegal immigrants that ICE arrested last year have criminal convictions, pending criminal charges or criminal histories in their countries of origin, and claimed the agency focused its efforts on people with outstanding deportation orders issued by an immigration judge who have failed to leave the country.
  • ‘SCOURGE’ OF SEXUAL PREDATORS, VIOLENT CRIMINALS BEING REMOVED FROM MINNEAPOLIS STREETS DESPITE BACKLASH Todd Lyons, acting director of U. S.
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement, speaks at a press conference at the John Joseph Moakley U. S.
  • Courthouse in Boston on June 2, 2025.
  • (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via ) "These local law enforcement agencies have already deemed these individuals a public safety threat and arrested them.
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