Federal immigration authorities plan to crack down on illegal immigrants who legally entered the United States but failed to leave when their documents expired, a move that comes in the aftermath of the terrorist attack by an Egyptian visa overstayer in Boulder, Colorado.

Todd Lyons, acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, revealed in the hours after an Egyptian national used a flamethrower to torch Jewish residents in Boulder on Sunday afternoon that the Trump administration had moved to target visa overstayers.

“There’s a big push right now at ICE to identify all these individuals that have overstayed their visas. We have millions that have come in, you know, all across the last administration that have overstayed their visas and overstayed their welcome,” Lyons said during an interview on Fox News Monday. “One of the main missions of ICE is to go ahead and arrest anyone that we can take an enforcement action [against], that has violated immigration immigration law.”

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The move breaks with the type of immigrant population that the Trump administration has focused its efforts on during its first four months in office, arresting and deporting immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, not on visas.

“We want to go ahead and make sure we take these bad actors out of the country before anything like this could happen,” said Lyons. “We don’t know the intent of what a lot of these people came for. A lot come here to commit crime, terrorist acts, or just not be the person we want in our neighborhood. So ICE is focused on finding these individuals and removing them quickly.”

The White House maintained that targeting all illegal immigrants was a priority going forward.

“The Trump Administration remains committed to restoring common-sense to our immigration system and deporting anyone who is in the United States illegally – whether they’ve overstayed a visa or crossed the border illegally. If you are in the country illegally, you won’t be for long,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson wrote in an email Monday evening.

Boulder police on Sunday identified Mohamed Sabry Soliman as a 45-year-old resident of El Paso County, Colorado. He was charged with a federal hate crime after admitting he targeted what he called a “Zionist group,” according to federal authorities.

The Department of Homeland Security told the Washington Examiner that Soliman was an illegal immigrant who entered during the Biden administration.

“The suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country. He entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022,” a DHS spokesperson wrote in an email.

Soliman, an Egyptian national, would have entered the U.S. on a B2, non-immigrant visa, meaning he was approved to be in the country for a short term.

Republicans have jumped on board with supportive calls for the Trump administration to crack down on all illegal immigration, not just illegal border crossers who are in the country.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was adamant during a press conference in his home state Monday that Soliman’s admission to the U.S. was the result of poor vetting and admission standards under former President Joe Biden.

“Why are we letting people like this guy in? He should have never been here,” said DeSantis. “He sure as hell should’ve been sent home when his visa expired.”

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) echoed DeSantis’ sentiment and called for the government to “ensure these threats to the nation are deported.”

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Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) took to X with a comment that “uncontrolled mass migration is suicidal.”

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) disclosed Sunday evening that he had asked the DHS to brief committee members as soon as feasible, given the attacks aimed at Jews in the U.S. in recent months.