Skip to main content

News Releases and Statements

News Releases and Statements

Search Help:

The displayed items are limited to the latest 1,250 news releases that match your filter criteria. Please try narrowing your filter criteria by date, topic or location if you do not find the news release you are seeking.

February 26, 2010
|Enforcement and Removal
In Operation Cross Check, a three-day enforcement surge in Texas, ICE and its law enforcement partners arrested 284 at-large criminal aliens.
February 24, 2010
|Enforcement and Removal

MESA, Ariz. - A Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated homicide in his native country was removed from the United States Wednesday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jose Dolores Sanchez-Rivera, 33, has been charged with aggravated homicide in El Salvador.

January 29, 2010
|Enforcement and Removal

WASHINGTON - Thirty-two foreign nationals with criminal records and four fugitives were arrested in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, D.C., following a four-day enforcement surge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

During the operation, which concluded Thursday, ICE officers located and arrested 32 criminal aliens with prior convictions for a variety of crimes, including robbery and narcotics possession with intent to distribute and four immigration fugitives.

This special operation involved more than 20 officers from ICE and the U.S.

January 13, 2010
|Enforcement and Removal
"ICE's Fugitive Operations will be featured on a Jan. 14 broadcast of ""Manhunters,"" a prime time reality series on A&E."
January 4, 2010
|Enforcement and Removal

NOGALES, Ariz. - A Mexican national wanted for homicide in his native country was turned over to representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) at the border crossing in Nogales, Ariz., Monday morning by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jose Antonio Mendoza-Serrano, 25, has been charged with homicide and the use of a firearm in Culiacan, Mexico. Prosecutors for the Justice of Baja, California Central District issued an arrest warrant for Mendoza on Nov. 10, 2009.

In June 2009, Mendoza was caught by U.S.

December 11, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
More than 80 percent of those arrested during the 3-day operation, the largest ever targeting at large criminal aliens, were foreign nationals with prior convictions for serious or violent crimes.
November 12, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

NOGALES, Ariz. - A Mexican national wanted for vehicular homicide in his native country was turned over to representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) at the border crossing in Nogales, Ariz., this morning by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Pablo Cruz-Rojas, 28, is suspected of causing a fatal traffic accident while driving under the influence in the state of Nayarit, Mexico, in July 2008.

November 11, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
The initiative, Secure Communities, is administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enables ICE to determine whether an individual arrested by a participating state or local law enforcement agency is a dangerous criminal alien and take the appropriate action to remove the individual from the community.
October 30, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Mexican national, who was indicted in U.S. District Court in Waco, Texas, for conspiracy to commit fraud related to identity documents, was arrested on Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The ICE Fugitive Operations Team in Memphis, Tenn., received information that Saul Jaimes-Ortiz was suspected of being in the vicinity of Horn Lake, Miss., and that a federal warrant had been issued for his arrest. ICE agents, with the assistance of the U.S.

July 29, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
On July 29, ICE deported the second man this week wanted for murder in Mexico
July 28, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
Two men, wanted for murder and weapons violations in Mexico, were deported by ICE Monday
May 29, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A Las Cruces man, wanted for murder and attempted murder by the El Paso Police Department in connection with the shooting of two individuals, was arrested on Thursday by members of the Las Cruces Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), Las Cruces METRO Narcotics Task Force, and the Las Cruces Police Department. One of the victims died as a result of the shooting and the other was hospitalized.

It is alleged that on or about May 25, Omar Gomez, 23, met with the victims in their vehicle.

May 28, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

NEW YORK - A native and citizen of Jamaica who was a criminal alien fugitive and the target of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York for failing to comply with immigration regulations and requirements.

Rudolph Ford was sentenced to four months in federal prison and one year of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. On March 19, ICE officers from the Fugitive Operations Team and Violent Criminal Alien Section with the assistance of the U.S.

May 20, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
Officers with ICE's Fugitive Operations Team in New York arrested ICE fugitive Calvin Inswood, a native and citizen of Jamaica.
May 11, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
Former Nazi Death Camp guard John Demjanjuk was removed through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice. On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
April 10, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
Former Gulf Cartel officer Jose Manuel Garza Rendon is deported after serving time in the United States.
April 7, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE officers at the California-Mexico border repatriate two former Mexican federal agents who now face drug-related money laundering charges in their native country.
February 25, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal
DALLAS - More agencies are being added to a growing list of law enforcement agencies throughout the state and north Texas that are receiving access to a program developed by the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS); this program is expected to bolster local efforts to identify dangerous deportable criminal aliens.

Irving Police Department and Kaufman County Jail were added Tuesday to the program known as "Secure Communities." Farmers Branch Police Department was added last week. The program, administered by U.S.

February 3, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

ATLANTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 92 fugitives aliens and three immigration violators throughout Georgia and the Carolinas during a four-day initiative targeting immigration fugitives.

The ICE fugitive operations team began the operation Jan.

January 30, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

DENVER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 45 fugitives and immigration violators throughout Colorado during a three-day initiative targeting immigration absconders which ended Thursday.

January 30, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

MESA, Ariz. - A Mexican national with ties to a violent street gang who was previously deported three years ago is facing federal criminal charges today after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were alerted to his presence by the Mesa Police Department.

Alan Dario Beltran-Sierra, 25, has been charged with re-entering the United States after removal, a felony violation that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Beltran was encountered by the Mesa police during a family dispute call.

January 16, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

DALLAS — U.S.

December 23, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal
During the operation, which concluded December 19, 2008, ICE officers arrested 73 immigration fugitives who ignored lawful orders of removal and seven other immigration violators. Of the 73 fugitives arrested, 25 had criminal histories that included assault, burglary, cocaine possession, criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal trespass, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, criminal possession of a weapon, DUI, fraud, larceny, and marijuana possession.
December 23, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal
During the operation, which concluded Friday, ICE officers arrested 81 immigration fugitives who ignored lawful orders of removal and went into hiding and 29 other immigration violators. Of the 110 arrested, 24 had criminal histories that spanned from aggravated assault, battery, marijuana possession, cocaine possession, heroin possession, trespassing, disorderly conduct, resisting officer with violence, sexual battery, social security fraud, burglary, carrying concealed firearm, larceny, grand theft and lewd and lascivious assault on a child.
November 26, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal
MIAMI - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that a five-day targeted fugitive enforcement operation last week in Miami, Broward, Palm Beach, Orlando, and Tampa areas netted 71 fugitive aliens and immigration violators.

During the operation, which concluded Friday, ICE officers arrested 60 immigration fugitives who ignored lawful orders of removal and went into hiding and 11 other immigration violators.

Resource

Featured Story Archive

View ICE's featured stories

Resource

Multimedia

View images and videos

Updated: