On Fox & Friends, former acting ICE director calls for “more ICE agents out on the street to arrest people”

Former acting ICE director John Torres: In big cities, “you need more ICE agents out on the street to arrest people that could have been arrested in the jail and could have been turned over to ICE”

From the August 1 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Is this another sign of why we need ICE? 

JOHN TORRES (FORMER ICE ACTING DIRECTOR): Yeah. In fact, not only is it a sign of why we need more of border protection agents like CBP and ICE, but what you see in some of the bigger cities is they are cooperating less with ICE. So what that means is you need more ICE agents out on the street to arrest people that could have been arrested in the jail and could have been turned over to ICE. But today they're being released back out to the street and you need agents to go in the community and find them. 

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