Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said he intends to carry out President Donald Trump’s pledge to launch the “largest deportation efforts ever,” declaring that “no one’s off the table.”

Lyons made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News, where he outlined the administration’s immigration enforcement strategy. 

“We’re going to use all the tools in the toolbox,” Lyons said. “We have great federal partners. Department of Justice has been outstanding with us, and we are going to team up with everyone that wants to work with us, and we’re to go out there and keep the president’s promise to sure that we have one of the largest deportation efforts ever.”

He added that ICE will work closely with state and local officials to identify and remove illegal immigrants. “No one’s off the table,” he reiterated.

The remarks followed President Trump’s interview with 60 Minutes on CBS, where he was asked whether current immigration raids had gone “too far.” Trump responded, “No, I think they haven’t gone far enough, because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”

“You have to get the people out, you know? You have, look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown out of their countries because they were, you know, criminals,” The president added.

Lyons also said ICE officers have faced growing hostility during enforcement operations, noting that protests targeting agents have intensified. The Department of Homeland Security has reported a 1,000 percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, with some agents’ families allegedly being doxxed and harassed.

“For the first time ever, ICE has been allowed to do their law enforcement mission, and the problem is so many on the left and there are so many people opposed to us, that a lot of the tactics that you are seeing are in self-defense,” Lyons said.

He urged elected officials to stop politicizing immigration enforcement, saying, “Tone down the rhetoric, stop putting targets on ICE agents’ backs, and go ahead and make your community safer. Work with us to take out these public safety threats. That’s what the president has promised.”