While Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ramped-up enforcement efforts in the nation’s sanctuary cities and states is focusing on criminals, it’s “important to also arrest any illegal alien that they encounter,” retired Immigration and Naturalization Service agent Michael Cutler told Newsmax on Sunday.

“Anybody who violates the immigration laws should be, in an ideal world, arrested,” Cutler told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend” on Sunday, while responding to border czar Tom Homan’s announcement about the enhanced enforcement efforts.

“What they’re doing is focusing on those who pose the biggest threat to society, the criminals, potential terrorists, human traffickers, and so forth,” Cutler said.

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