Acting Director of ICE Mark Morgan has confirmed that deporting families is on the table. He stated that everyone who has broken the law is subject to deportation.

According to The Daily Caller:

Acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Mark Morgan said his agency is not ruling out the possibility of arresting and deporting migrant families that have been ordered to leave the U.S.

“The mindset is no one is exempted. You’re either in violation of the law or not, and we take it from there,” Morgan told reporters Tuesday at ICE’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, according to The Washington Times. “That will include families.”

“I don’t think you want the director of ICE exempting a demographic that is in violation of our immigration laws based on my own political, personal ideology or moral stance,” he continued.

Morgan said that the agency is considering the deportation of family units, an action once deemed off-limits, as a way to disincentivized foreign nationals from illegally entering the U.S. Currently, migrants believe if they bring a child with them, they are essentially guaranteed entry into the country.

Morgan stated that of the family units that entered the country in 2017 98% of them still remain in the country.