The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, has said that the agency will begin cracking down on companies that are employing illegal aliens.
Lyons discussed the agency’s plans during an interview with Face the Nation on CBS.
In addition to holding companies accountable, they will also be arresting anyone found in the country illegally, whether they have a criminal record or not, though they will prioritize catching “the worst of the worst.”
“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,” Lyons said.”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 do have to go out into the community and make those arrests, and that’s where you are seeing (that) increase in so-called ‘collateral’ arrests,” Lyons continued.
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