Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that the agency is ramping up efforts to identify and deport visa overstays following the Boulder, Colorado attack.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "There is a big push right now at ICE to go ahead and identify all of these individuals that have overstayed their visas ... We want to go ahead and we make sure we take these bad actors out of the country before anything like this could happen —… pic.twitter.com/zXQgFqw1ac
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 2, 2025
“There is a big push right now at ICE to go ahead and identify all of these individuals that have overstayed their visas,” Lyons told reporters.
“We want to go ahead and make sure we take these bad actors out of the country before anything like this could happen. Because under the last administration, the screening just wasn’t there.”
The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country.
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) June 2, 2025
He entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired on February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022. pic.twitter.com/1Jd5IA9bcg
The comments come after Mohamed Soliman, an undocumented immigrant who overstayed his visa, attacked a pro-Israel rally with incendiary devices. The FBI is investigating the case as terrorism.
