‘In The Crosshairs Of Terrorists’: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Confirms Cartels Placing Bounties On Agents

United States 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons said Monday that his agents were facing an “uptick” in threats from drug cartels.

ICE facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have been the scene of multiple riots as opposition to the agency’s operations targeting illegal immigrants has intensified. Lyons reacted to reports that Chicago police were ordered not to assist ICE agents who were ambushed Saturday.

“It is sad. All law enforcement will respond to any other brother or sister in law enforcement that’s in need,” Lyons said. “That’s what didn’t happen here in Chicago. You had 30 or 40 border patrol agents who were being swarmed, pinned in and attacked. “You have a domestic terrorist that was doxxing agents and officers. She had a firearm in the vehicle, they had to return fire, yet officers of the Chicago PD are told to stand down.”

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“It shows where we are with the sad state of law enforcement in Illinois is the fact that you had other federal officers under attack, yet because of politics and the way people feel about