The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed there is a surge of agents in Boston and the greater region.

“We’ve increased our numbers of agents and officers there as well as our partners with the other federal components,” ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons said on the Howie Carr show Friday afternoon. “We’re focused on all of these criminal aliens that are being released without being notified to us, you know. Just within the past 24, 48 hours we’ve made some significant arrests.”

The influx of ICE agents to the city comes as the federal government has also filed a lawsuit against the city, the BPD, Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox over the city’s Boston Trust Act statute that limits the city’s cooperation with federal immigration agents.

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