Washington – In a special interview with CBS News, the head of American immigration and customs enforcement said that their agents find illegally in the country, even though there is a lack of their criminal records, unauthorized workers would have to be tightened on companies hiring.
ICE acting director Tod Lyon said that his agency preferred its “limited resources” to arrest and exile “worst the worst”, such as illegally in the US who also have serious criminal history.
But Leone said that non-prodigies living in the US without any authority would also be taken into custody during the arrest, arguing that limiting the cooperation between snow and local law to states and cities to the “sanctuary” policies are forcing their agents to go into communities not to turn on Nonsitness Inmates.
“Again, the disappointment for me will prefer to focus on these criminal aliens that are within the gel feature,” Leons said during her first seat-down network interview. “A local law enforcement agency, the state agency already considered the person a public safety threat and arrested them and they are in custody.”
“I will focus a lot to take into custody instead of focusing on all my limited resources, but we have to go out in the community and do those arrests, and this is where you are looking (that) enhancing” so -called “collateral” arrests, in the arrest, Leon mentioned those who do not have the original targets of operations, but the usual is not found.
If snow is “illegally here in the country, we will take them into custody,” Lyons said.
“We have opened the entire aperture”
The collateral arrest by the ICE was effectively banned under the Biden administration, issuing rules to direct the exile that they focus on large -scale serious criminal criminals, national security threats and arrest of migrants who recently entered the US illegally. The policy was reversed soon after President Trump assumed the second time in January.
As part of the promise of Mr. Trump’s promise to crack down on illegal immigration, his administration has given a comprehensive mandate to ICE, along with the White House Deputy Chief Staff Stephen Miller Push the agency to operate 3,000 daily arrestsWhile the ice is not yet close to that number, the agency has received the bus Tens billions of dollars Your exile campaign in additional funds to make turbo-charging with Congress.
Leone said “this is possible” with a new infusion of funds to meet the goal of the administration of 1 million exile in a year. According to internal government data received by CBS News, ICE has recorded around 150,000 exile in the office in the first six months of Shri Trump.
From 1 January to 24 June, ICE deported around 70,000 people with criminal convicts, but according to many documents for immigration or traffic crimes, Data received by CBS News,
While the administration often highlights the arrest of non-citizens guilty of serious crimes such as murder and rape, snow has also provoked backlash in communities across the country due to some of its strategy and actions, including the use of masks by agents (which) Leones said that it will continue Due to concerns about the safety of their officers), to participate in the arrest of the refugee and to participate in the raid on the court hearing and the raids.
“The ice is always focused on the worst,” Lyons said. “A difference that you will see is now under this administration, we have opened the entire aperture of immigration portfolio.”
Leone promises to justify companies
Another major policy in the ICE under the second Trump administration is to raise a biden-era on a large scale immigration raid on the work.
In recent weeks, federal immigration officials have arrested hundreds of suspected unauthorized workers at a meatpacking plant in Nebraska, who run a horse in Louisiana and Canbis form In southern California. In cannabis farms alone, authorities detained more than 300 migrants, who were allegedly illegally 10 minors in the country.
Amid concerns with the industry that Mr. Trump’s rift was damaging his businesses, snow in June Ordered a stop For immigration roundup in fields, hotels and restaurants. But that break Went for only a few daysSince then, the President has talked about giving farmers with workers who are not legally “pass” in the US, although his administration has not given much information about what will happen.
In his interview with CBS News, Leonse said that ICE has continued the work immigration enforcement, stating that there is no restriction on such tasks. He said that they would rely on criminal warrants against employers on suspicion of hiring unauthorized immigrants, which he said that there is no “aggrieved crime”, such investigation often exposes labor or child trafficking.
“Not only we are focusing on individuals you know, we are working illegally here, we are focusing on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers, these people who came here for a better life,” said Leones.
To confirm that ICE plans to catch people who justify immigrants illegally in America – and not only arrest workers – Leon said, “One hundred percent.”
Margaret Brainan contributed to this report.
