(NewsNation) — In an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks says the agency will not take its foot off the gas regarding border security.

It comes as the Border Patrol continues to battle against criminal cartels who are currently fighting each other for territory to traffic drugs and people through Mexico and into the United States.

Banks says that as the U.S. puts greater pressure on the cartels, it is becoming more dangerous for law enforcement.

As such, Banks says he supports the U.S. using any available resources to go after the cartels.

“In the first 100 days, we’ve seized over a quarter-million pounds of hard narcotics that would have gone to the streets of America,” Banks told NewsNation.

“If you are a law enforcement agency in the federal government of the United States, you have been brought into this fight against illegal immigration in this country, and everyone is out there fighting it every day. And that’s why we’re seeing the record lows that we’re seeing, because we’ve made it a whole-of-government approach.”

At least 82 migrants are now facing criminal charges for trespassing on a U.S. military installation, as the administration is creating what it calls “national defense areas” along the southern border. There is also a planned expansion of national defense areas.

“I support anything that we can do legally that will shut down the border, and I’m here to support the president and the secretary and doing anything we can do within our legal powers to get that border shut down,” Banks said. “We welcome and encourage anyone out there, law enforcement, DOD National Guard, to come help us fight this fight. And they are. We are bringing everything but the kitchen sink at them.”

Moreover, the federal government announced Monday it is financially incentivizing self-deportation.

The Department of Homeland Security announced a “historic opportunity for illegal aliens to receive both financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel back to their home country through the CBP Home App.”

The DHS says the first recipient has already returned home to Honduras after previously living in Chicago.

A $1,000 stipend will be awarded once they return to their home country and their departure via the CBP app has been confirmed.

“This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens, and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in the release.

Currently, the average cost to arrest, detain and remove someone in the country illegally is over $17,000, according to the DHS.