Acting ICE Director: ICE Prefers Targeting Jailed Public Safety Threats Over Community Sweeps

Todd Lyons: "Yes, ICE Is going to focus on the worst of the worst. And that's what we do need to focus our limited resources on. That's one thing I've always said from the start. What's, again, frustrating for me is the fact that we would love to focus on these criminal aliens that are inside a jail facility, right? A local law enforcement agency, state agency, already deemed that person a public safety threat and arrested them and they're in detention. I'd much rather focus all of our limited resources on that to take them into custody. But we – we do have to go out into the community and make those arrests. And that's where you are seeing those increase of if we encounter someone say that is here in the country illegally, we will take them into custody."