Acting ICE Deputy Director Ken Genalo dispelled a rumor Friday that agents are arresting American citizens and opened up about the damage caused by New York City‘s sanctuary policies.

“Obviously, there’s some misinformation and false narratives that are getting played in the media, which, unfortunately, always seems to accompany our agency,” Genalo told Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “ICE does not arrest U.S. citizens unless they have a specific criminal warrant for a U.S. citizen.”

“On a immigration enforcement, for the civil immigration cases, we do not arrest U.S. citizens. We focus on criminal aliens and those that present a danger to national security.”

When a criminal illegal immigrant is in custody, an ICE detainer should allow agents the ability to come and retrieve them, but sanctuary policies like those in New York City prevent the cooperation between local and federal officials necessary to achieve deportation, according to Genalo.

“They just release the criminals right back into the community to reoffend, and there’s a lot of recidivism with these individuals,” he said.

ICE raids have gone viral since President Donald Trump took office, especially in New York City, where an estimated 60,000 criminal illegal immigrants roam free as a result of liberal sanctuary city policies.

That number does not include the “gotaways,” and the process of tracking the criminal illegal immigrants down is hurting taxpayers due to the manpower and material required to bring them in, according to Genalo.

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“A lot of these people are bad actors,” he said. “They’re violent felons, and they have the upper hand in their apartments or residences. So, when you’re going in, you need to ensure you have safety and a show of force.”

“Now, we have to send all these resources out to try and arrest these individuals that we could have just taken in the confines and security of a facility or a jail. I mean, it doesn’t make any sense.”