EXCLUSIVE: Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said his agency will “ramp” up raids in sanctuary cities if they refuse to cooperate with his agents.
Todd Lyons sounded off on the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and a range of other issues, saying ICE agents were going to go after criminal illegal immigrants regardless of sanctuary policies.
“The more they’re going to double down or triple down, we’re going to ramp it up more,” he told Fox News. “We want to work with you, but if you don’t want to work with the federal government, if you don’t want to work with ICE, then we’re going to make sure that we’re doing all we can do to bring our law enforcement resources to that jurisdiction. And we’re going to take care of those public safety threats.
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ICE Director Todd Lyons speaks during a news conference with members of Florida law enforcement after the state made the first arrest in the nation via the Alien Enemies Act with the arrest of an alleged TdA gang member in Orlando. (WOFL/Pool)
“If you don’t want to work with us, we’re going to handle the problem,” he added.
Lyons, however, did praise California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who recently said his state will work with ICE.
A sanctuary state, California generally doesn’t cooperate with immigration authorities, but Newsom said it would be willing to work with the agency to honor detainer requests. That followed outrage over a Fox News story about an illegal immigrant convicted of…
