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April 20, 2009
|Transnational Gangs
CHICAGO - Local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, in close partnership with law enforcement officers from other local agencies, made 17 arrests and lodged two detainers in a two-day operation targeting illegal aliens with ties to violent street gangs in Chicago's northern and northwest suburbs last week.
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
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
A rare chrome rifle with pearl handle grip and a small photograph of Saddam Hussein near the front sight was owned by the late dictator.
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 23, 2009
|Transnational Gangs

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly 2,000 gang members and gang associates in the Los Angeles area in 2008 as part of the agency's ongoing national anti-gang effort known as Operation Community Shield.

January 16, 2009
|Enforcement and Removal

DALLAS — U.S.

December 28, 2008
|Transnational Gangs

Carlos Garcia-Hernandez, 19, a citizen of Mexico, was turned over to Mexican officials on the Brownsville International Bridge at approximately 1:00 p.m. Monday. Garcia-Hernandez, a member of the "Houstone" street gang in Houston, Texas, was arrested December 11 after ICE received word that Mexican authorities were seeking him.

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.
December 19, 2008
|Transnational Gangs
Three local fugitive operations teams began the operation Dec. 14, and made the targeted arrests in the following 18 Metroplex cities: Argyle, Arlington, Balch Springs, The Colony, Carrollton, Dallas, Denton, Duncanville, Farmers Branch, Fort Worth, Garland, Haltom City, Irving, Kennedale, Mesquite, Plano, Richardson and Rowlett. Those arrested are from the following countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Nepal and Nicaragua.
November 26, 2008
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations

SEATTLE - A Romanian national who attempted to sell an 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly belonged to Adolf Hitler, will make his initial appearance in federal court at 1:30 this afternoon charged with sale or receipt of stolen goods.

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.

November 25, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

CHARLOTTE, NC - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that a five-day targeted fugitive operation that culminated Friday in the Carolinas and Georgia netted 104 fugitive aliens and immigration violators.

Among those arrested were 94 fugitives who ignored lawful orders of removal and went into hiding and 10 other immigration violators.

November 18, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal
The Buncombe, Henderson and Gaston County Sheriffs' Offices yesterday received a new link that will automatically check the criminal and immigration history of all individuals booked into their jails. This new process will provide local officers as much information available about individuals they arrest and help to more efficiently identify criminal aliens for potential removal.
November 12, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal
Wake County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday became the first of four law enforcement agencies in North Carolina to receive new database link that will automatically check the criminal and immigration history of all individuals booked into the jail. This new process provides local officers as much information available about individuals they arrest and help to more efficiently identify criminal aliens for potential removal.
November 7, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

MIAMI - More than 110 immigration fugitives and immigration violators were arrested here following a five-day targeted enforcement action last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) Miami fugitive operations teams. This enforcement effort focused on identifying fugitives residing in Miami, Broward, Palm Beach, Orlando, and Tampa areas.

During the operation, which concluded Friday, ICE deportation officers and immigration enforcement agents arrested 96 immigration fugitives and 15 immigration violators.

November 3, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

Ignazio Ingrassia, an Italian national departed the United States without incident, escorted by ICE officers, and was turned over to Italian National Police officials who were waiting for him at Rome Fiumicino Airport in Italy. This follows the issuance of a voluntary departure order from a federal immigration judge.

October 29, 2008
|Human Rights Violators
Roy M. Belfast Jr., the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was charged in a November 2007 superseding indictment with torture, conspiracy to commit torture, using a firearm during a crime of violence and conspiracy to use a firearm during a crime of violence.
October 27, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that its fugitive operations teams based in Philadelphia detention and removal office arrested 37 fugitives, which included 14 with criminal records, during a targeted operation which started on October 14th and ended on October 26th. During the operation an additional 62 immigration violators were arrested, 27 with criminal histories. All of the arrests occurred in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

October 27, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

NEW YORK, NY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 96 fugitives and immigration violators in New York and Long Island during a targeted enforcement, which began on October 14th and concluded October 26th.

Of the 96 aliens arrested, 90 were fugitive targets of the operation and 46 of them had criminal histories. Six other immigration violators were also arrested during the operation, all with criminal histories.

October 27, 2008
|Enforcement and Removal

NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today its four New Jersey Fugitive Operations Teams arrested a total of 145 fugitive aliens during a nearly two-week long operation that began October 14 and concluded yesterday.

In New Jersey, of the 145 fugitives arrested, 65 had criminal records. During the operation, an additional 44 immigration violators were arrested, 22 of whom had criminal histories.

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