The ICE director in New York City just revealed that the number of criminal illegals in the city is in the thousands, suggesting that it’s so overwhelming and that they are so under-resourced that they just have to focus on the worst of the worst.

He told the New York Post that it would take a ‘lifetime’ to deport all of the criminal illegals just in the city alone:

There are thousands of migrant criminals roaming the streets of Gotham, the head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s NYC field office told The Post.

“In New York City, it would take a lifetime to clear the city of the criminals that we have” if the status quo remains the same, Kenneth Genalo said Friday in his first interview since Donald Trump was elected president.

“We need additional resources,” insisted the 33-year ICE veteran who oversees nearly 400 staffers as regional director of the NYC-area office.

“The fact is that I have to focus all of my resources on the worst of the worst, the most egregious violators. All I can tell you is we have leads that we work every day — and it’s not in the hundreds,” added Genalo, all but admitting for the first time that the number is in the thousands.

Of the nearly 7.8 million illegal immigrants in the United States, 662,586 are convicted felons or have criminal charges pending, the agency said of data through July 21.

More than 223,000 migrants have poured into the Big Apple since the immigration crisis began in the spring of 2022 — and at least 58,000 are still being cared for by taxpayers in city-funded shelters. ICE did not provide the exact number of criminals among them.

Genalo wouldn’t say how the agency will transform under Trump, who plans to launch a mass deportation of illegal, criminal migrants after being sworn in as president in January.