<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons fired back on Saturday at the  Philadelphia Sheriff who&#8217;d threatened to arrest ICE agents, telling her to go ahead and &#8220;try it, see what happens.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lyons addressed Sheriff Rochelle Bilal&#8217;s comments directly during an appearance on &#8220;The Big Weekend Show&#8221; on Fox News, saying that Bilal was only feeding into the already dangerous situation ICE agents were facing every day by pitting local law enforcement against federal law enforcement.</p>
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<p>Todd Lyons: &#8220;You can&#8217;t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer &#8230; My message to the Sheriff is try it, try to arrest my folks. Let&#8217;s see what happens.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ZyZC2GgB08">https://t.co/ZyZC2GgB08</a> <a href="https://t.co/Jd4yZXErhk">pic.twitter.com/Jd4yZXErhk</a></p>
<p>— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichSementa/status/2010174197159604728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Any time you pit law enforcement officers against law enforcement officers, it makes nobody safe,&#8221; Lyons said. &#8220;This is the exact type of political rhetoric that I&#8217;ve been seeing ever since I had the opportunity to be the ICE Director &#8230; this increased rhetoric is what&#8217;s causing the issues right now. You can&#8217;t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer. We are out there trying to do a lawful law enforcement mission, and this rhetoric right here is a pure example of what we&#8217;re facing every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lyons went on to say that he wasn&#8217;t normally one to engage in public bluster, but his message to the sheriff was simple: &#8220;Try it, try to arrest my folks. Let&#8217;s see what happens.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bilal tore into ICE a day earlier, claiming that federal agents were the ones committing crimes when they moved to enforce federal immigration law.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those that come into our communities wearing masks to commit crime—and thank God for our District Attorney Larry Krasner, who says he&#8217;s gonna lock them up &#8230; you&#8217;re getting arrested &#8230; we stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up fake, what you can call ICE,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Professional law enforcement? I&#8217;m not calling none of that. I call them made-up, fake wanna-be law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law but moral law &#8230; you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off. You don&#8217;t want this smoke, because we&#8217;ll bring it to you. And the fake, whatever they call them because I can put &#8230; I can&#8217;t say their name. But the criminal in the White House will not keep you from going to jail.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Philadelphia Police Department also issued a statement in response to Bilal&#8217;s comments, saying that she was not in charge of municipal policing and that the city&#8217;s police officers would continue to work in conjunction with other &#8220;law enforcement partners&#8221; moving forward.</p>
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