News Releases and Statements

A Guatemalan citizen wanted for murder in his native country was removed from the United States Friday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

A three-time convicted drug trafficker was sentenced Friday to serve a lifetime prison term, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Tuesday arrested an Austin-area businessman and four other individuals in connection with an H-2B visa fraud scam.

A husband and wife from Brooklyn, N.Y., were sentenced Thursday to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking a minor, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Domingo Salazar and Norma Mendez used physical violence and intimidation to force a 17-year-old woman to work as a prostitute around New York City.

Two Los Angeles-area men will appear in state court here Friday to answer to charges stemming from a probe by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Anaheim Police Department that they illegally imported $2 million in counterfeit collectable Disney pins from China and sought to sell them over the Internet.

Donald J. Jones, III, 46, of Pemberton, New Jersey, was named in a six-count indictment announced by U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha. Jones was arrested in Providence last month as he exited a bus from New York after traveling from his home in New Jersey to Rhode Island in an alleged scheme to have sex with a minor.

Today, U.S. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) returned a collection of cultural artifacts illegally imported into the United States from Peru. The artifacts were discovered as part of three separate investigations by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and Denver.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations officers on May 11 deported an illegal alien wanted in connection to a murder in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

A Cliffside Park, N.J., man pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to fraudulently provide a U.S. Social Security card, a California driver's license and counterfeit Korean passport. He was arrested in a coordinated law enforcement takedown of 53 individuals in connection with a widespread, sophisticated identify theft...

Dave Dean, 43, of Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

U.S. ICE today published an expanded list of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degree programs that qualify eligible graduates on student visas for an Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension - an important step forward in the Obama administration's continued commitment to fixing our broken immigration system.

A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment on Wednesday charging Oscar M. Escobar, 36, of Rocksprings, Texas with conspiracy to commit and attempted bulk-cash smuggling in a case is being investigated by Department of Public Safety (DPS), U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brown County District Attorney's Office.

Jose Orlando Garcia Duran, 33, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Wednesday to 286 months in federal prison for his role in smuggling cocaine and heroin through the Port of Savannah. The case was the result of a joint investigation conducted by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Derek S. Holley, 34, of Julian, W. Va., pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Holley admitted in his plea agreement that in November 2008, he possessed numerous images of child pornography on three computer hard drives located in his parents...

A federal grand jury indicted a man and a woman on Thursday with conspiracy to possess machine guns, possessing machine guns, and smuggling goods from the United States in connection to a undercover buy conducted in April 2011.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using a federal information sharing capability as part of the Secure Communities program in Stark and Tuscarawas counties.

Three Mexican nationals were sentenced Monday on charges of trafficking identification documents and possession of document-making implements following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday began using the Secure Communities program in the following six Missouri counties: Barton, Cedar, Putnam, Saint Clair, Sullivan and Vernon.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) have teamed up to create the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force to identify and arrest child predators operating in the county.

In commemoration of 2011 National Police Week, U.S. ICE held a memorial ceremony on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in honor of fallen officers and agents who sacrificed their lives while in the line of duty. The ceremony included a tribute to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jaime J. Zapata, who was fatally shot in February 2011 in Mexico.

U.S. ICE Director John Morton has named Michael Feinberg as the new special agent in charge of the five-state Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office based in the Twin Cities. As special agent in charge, Feinberg supervises a cadre of special agents located in 14 offices throughout Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Roundtable attendees included law enforcement leaders from throughout the country, as well as representatives from national law enforcement organizations and ICE senior leadership.

U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested Eliezer Delgado-Ramos, 44, and Julio E. Melendez-Rivera, 25, both of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and Inocencio Santana-Nieves, 29, of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, and Raymond Gonzalez-Mercado, 33, of San Juan, and seized more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine worth about $26 million.

An employee with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has been charged with bribery for accepting thousands of dollars to provide driver's licenses to illegal aliens who were not entitled to them following an investigation by U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Nevada DMV.

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Monday to trafficking in counterfeit goods for bringing hundreds of bogus, Chinese-made Ab Circle Pro machines and related items into the United States.