U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will continue to focus on arresting “the worst of the worst” aliens, though any migrant in the country illegally could be apprehended in the process, according to the agency’s acting director.

During a Sunday appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Acting Director Todd Lyons said ICE will prioritize its “limited resources” on arresting and deporting migrants with criminal histories.

“ICE is always focused on the worst of the worst,” Lyons told CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez. “One difference you’ll see now is under this [Trump] administration, we have opened up the whole aperture of the immigration portfolio, meaning that if you’re here illegally and ICE goes out and arrests someone that is released from a sanctuary jurisdiction or wanted in their home country, and an ICE officer finds other individuals with them who are in the country illegally, we’re going to take them as well.

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