News Releases and Statements

With the expansion of Secure Communities to Carroll, Douglas and Paulding counties, ICE is using this capability in 27 Ga. jurisdictions. Across the country, ICE is using this capability in 1,188 jurisdictions in 41 states.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today began using the Secure Communities program in seven Michigan counties including Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Ottawa to help federal immigration officials identify criminal aliens.

4 additional South Carolina counties to benefit from ICE program to enhance identification and removal of aliens convicted of a crime

Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using the Secure Communities program in Alleghany, Garrett and Washington counties to help federal immigration officials identify criminal aliens in state prisons and local jails by running their fingerprints against federal immigration databases when they are booked into the system.

In a chartered flight that originated in Miami Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 73 aliens, including 69 convicted criminals, to the Dominican Republic. Those removed included three convicted of murder, two convicted of sex offenses and one who was wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic.

"ICE is resuming limited removal of convicted criminal Haitians with final orders of removal, in coordination with the Government of Haiti and the U.S. Department of State. The removal of Haitian nationals will be conducted in a manner that comports with the March 2, 2011 ICE memo entitled ""Civil Immigration Enforcement..."""

A criminal complaint filed March 24 alleges that Jose Luis Ramirez-Rico, 31, of Wichita, picked up a box cutter and lunged at an ICE ERO officer on March 17 while the officer was looking for another man thought to live at the same address.

A Brazilian national, who is wanted for a 1991 murder, was deported on Tuesday by local officers with U.S. ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Joao de Oliveira, 51, was charged in January 1997 for the murder of Absolon Ferreira de Souza. On April 15, 1991, De Oliveira and the victim had an altercation outside a bar...

Following an enforcement surge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), Virginia State Police, and U.S. Marshals Service along with 10 local law enforcement agencies, ICE arrested 131 foreign nationals with criminal records and eight fugitives in the Northern Virginia area.

A South African national, who is wanted in his home country for fraud and forgery, was deported on Friday and turned over to South African law enforcement officials by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.

A Bahamian national, who fled to the United States to avoid a prison sentence on a murder charge in his native country, was turned over to Bahamian authorities Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

A previously deported Honduran national has been indicted for federal firearms violations following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Two men from El Salvador, both wanted on separate murder charges, were deported on Thursday by officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO).

This month, episodes featuring ICE will air on March 17 and March 31 on A&E.

A Guatemalan national previously deported after being convicted of a violent crime has been sentenced in federal court in Providence to two years in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation. The case was investigated jointly with U.S. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the East Providence Police...

On Tuesday, U.S. ICE began using a federal information-sharing capability in Benton, Black Hawk, Johnson, Linn and Woodbury counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.

A Canadian national convicted in the United States of plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in 2000 was deported to his native country Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) where he was turned over to representatives from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Vancouver International Airport.

Read ICE Director John Morton's memo on priorities for the apprehension, detention and removal of aliens.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 24 foreign nationals during a six-day enforcement action in South Florida targeting convicted criminal aliens identified in violation of U.S. immigration law.

The activation earlier this week of Secure Communities in six northern California jurisdictions - Alpine, Del Norte, Lassen, Sierra, Siskiyou and Trinity counties - means the program's vital information-sharing capability is, for the first time, accessible to law enforcement agencies in all 58 of the state's counties.

During a four-day targeted enforcement operation in and around Jackson that ended Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 58 individuals, including convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and known gang members and affiliates.

A man wanted on murder charges in the southeastern European country of Montenegro was removed from the United States this week by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

More than 40 criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators are facing deportation and criminal charges following an enforcement effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Columbus.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information-sharing capability in Arapahoe, Denver and El Paso counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.

U.S. ICE is now using a federal information-sharing capability in the entire state of New Mexico, which helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime. This capability is part of Secure Communities...