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Its year end statistics disclosing that this past year the agency deported about 235,000 immigrants. the fewest deportations since 2006. i.c.e. officials say that of those deported in the last year, 86% were considered, quote, priority one, which means they were recent unlawful border entrants or convicted or aggravated felons. department of homeland security secretary jeh johnson has admitted his agency would be making deportation a priority next year saying in a statement, in 2016 and beyond i want to focus even more interior enforcement resources on removing convicted criminals. the i.c.e. ...

Reports and if other states follow arizona's lead, will you be swamped? >> time will tell. we'll take things as they come. don't want to speculate at this point as what this we'll get. we'll enforce federal immigration law to the best we can. obviously there are some challenges for us from a resource perspective and that's why we have to have priorities and focus on certain classes of offenders over others. criminals. recent border entrants. we're going to do the best we can. >> john morton from immigration customs and enforcement. thanks for joining thus morning. with arizona's controversia...

Enforcement and we've come into office, we have said that we're going to take a new approach, prioritize things in a world of limited resources and we focus on criminal offenders, we focus on recent border entrants and we focused on people who game the system, people who have a final order, didn't go home, got their status by fraud, deported the country and came back in illegally. we're just serious about enforcing the law but doing it in a way that makes sense and takes into account the fact that we don't have enough resources to remove every single person who's here. >> all right, but your c...