In an exclusive interview with CBS News, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons said that his officers will be cracking down on companies who hire undocumented workers and continue to arrest anyone in the United States illegally, even those without criminal records, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez.

“Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we're focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers, these people that came here for a better life,” said Lyons.

Andrew J. Campa of the Los Angeles Times summarizes the news on the latest escalations in immigration enforcement, including the use of Medicare records.

Separately, on Friday, federal immigration enforcement officials seized an Afghan father of five and former interpreter for the U.S. military, reports Mona Mahadevan of the New Haven Independent.

The man, known as “Zia S.,” a Special Immigrant Visa recipient living in Connecticut, went to a routine appointment with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to submit biometric information for his green card application. After leaving the USCIS office, six federal agents forced him into an unmarked van, Mahadevan reports.

Maggie Mitchell Salem, executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), the Connecticut organization that resettled Zia and his family, highlights how the recent shift of policies is impacting people: “We all have to adjust what we think of as undocumented, because people are being made undocumented every day.”

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