News Releases and Statements

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Barrow, Newton and Walton counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the U.S., who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.

Jesus Arturo Maciass-Nevarez, 44, a Mexican national, was sentenced Feb. 9 to 57 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being deported.

A man who fled to the United States after previously being deported to Mexico in 2007 was deported again on Friday to face charges of concealing an illegal weapon. Juan Carlos Holguin-Portillo, 35, a Mexican national, was deported Feb. 11 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

A Taiwanese national, who is wanted in her native country in connection with a multi-million dollar embezzlement scheme, was turned over to representatives from the Taipei Ministry of Justice at the Taoyuan International Airport on Wednesday by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Boone, Cape Girardeau, Cass, Cole, Dunklin, Jasper, Marion and Saint Charles counties.

A man who fled to the United States after allegedly committing aggravated murder in Mexico was deported on Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

A Honduran national, wanted in his home country for first degree murder, was turned over to Honduran law enforcement officials Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.

Twenty-eight previously deported aliens and three immigration violators are facing deportation following a one week long enforcement operation spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in New Jersey.

On Tuesday, six northern California counties-including Inyo, Amador, Calaveras, Glenn, Modoc and San Benito-became the latest in the state to benefit from a U.S. ICE federal information-sharing capability that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States...

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Ashtabula and Jefferson 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.

ICE began using a federal information sharing capability in Dorchester and Talbot 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. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office in Philadelphia arrested 44 foreign nationals, 21 with criminal convictions, during a five-day enforcement action throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware targeting convicted criminal aliens who have violated U.S. immigration law.

Across the world, fugitives evade law enforcement by fleeing countries where they've committed crimes. Since August 2010, ICE's Fugitive Alien Removal Program has removed 27 individuals from the United States who were wanted overseas.

On Tuesday, five northern California counties - Colusa, Nevada, Plumas, Sutter and Tehama - became the latest in the state to benefit from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal information-sharing capability 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.

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Hardin County 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.

With the expansion of the biometric information sharing capability to Henry, Rockdale and Spalding counties, ICE is using this capability in 13 Georgia jurisdictions, including Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Muscogee, Hall, Whitfield, Cherokee and Forsyth counties.

Four Mexican nationals were convicted of re-entering the United States after being previously deported by officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

More than 70 criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators are facing deportation and criminal charges following a four-day enforcement operation in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan.

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Athens County 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. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed Branko Popic, who served in the army of the breakaway Republic of Srpska during the July 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The garbage truck driver in a July 2008 fatal collision with a bicyclist in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 31 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being removed because he was convicted of an aggravated felony.

Since its activation in Sacramento County a year ago, the biometric information-sharing capability deployed as part of the Secure Communities initiative has resulted in the identification and removal of more than 460 convicted criminal aliens from the United States who were encountered by local law enforcement in Sacramento County.

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information-sharing capability in all Wisconsin 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.

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information-sharing capability in Saline County 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.