Boston’s top federal immigration official has told Fox News that ICE is “not going away” from taking illegal aliens off the streets of Greater Boston despite sanctuary policies that try to hinder their efforts.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde’s declaration came during a raid on Thursday that featured the arrests of a slew of alleged illegal aliens described as “extremely violent,” a lead agent described to colleagues.

According to a segment that aired on Friday, one arrested illegal alien included a Salvadoran previously convicted of child rape who illegelly reentered the country after being deported in 2017. Agents found the man living next door to a children’s playground in an undisclosed community, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported.

“We know what the American people voted for, we understand that we work for the American people, and we’re going to be here until we send everyone home,” Hyde told Melugin, embedded in the raid.

“Due to the open border policies,” Hyde added, “we are finding that plenty of people who have been previously deported and committed heinous crimes and were removed from the country are now back here, just living among us. It’s our job to go round them up.”

Another arrested illegal alien highlighted in the segment was a Salvadoran allegedly on El Salvador’s most wanted list who had an Interpol Red Notice warrant for aggravated homicide, aggravated kidnapping, and robbery.

Others included a Colombian facing pending charges for sexual assault of a child, a Dominican with a drug-trafficking conviction facing local charges for fentanyl distribution, and some others who had been arrested but let go by local authorities under sanctuary policies, Melugin reported.

Melugin also detailed instances of activists trying to block federal agents from arresting aliens – a problem that ICE has said it is dealing with daily.

“These protesters are emboldened by politicians,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer, co-hosts of America’s Newsroom on Fox News.

“What’s important to remember is that these sanctuary city politicians, their policies create magnets for these criminal illegal aliens to come into these communities,” McLaughlin added, “because they know there are no repercussions at the hands of the city and that the city will in fact hamstring our law enforcement officers.”

After being first embedded with federal agents in the Boston area, days after President Trump retook office in January, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu accused Fox News and the Trump administration of sensationalism.

“They are now including Fox News being embedded … on these actions,” Wu said, “or bringing other celebrities to document what’s happening to create a sense of greater impact with that fear and destabilization.”