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ICE's methods for locating and arresting undocumented immigrants
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a landmark reorganization passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11 attacks...
The principal federal agencies that carried out immigration enforcement before the creation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003 were the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I...
The institutional mission and internal structure of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been repeatedly reshaped by presidential priorities: created in 2003 to consolidate interior imm...
The federal agency known as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reorganization after 9/11, not by President Barack Obama . T...
Common data-sharing agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) typically let ICE access biographical and contact data from other agencies—most prominently Medicaid records from HHS...
ICE distinguishes between "criminal aliens" and "civil immigration violators" largely by whether an individual has been convicted of—or is charged with—criminal offenses that trigger immigration conse...
ICE locates and arrests undocumented immigrants through a mix of data-driven identification, criminal-justice referrals, targeted field surveillance and cooperative partnerships with local and federal...
The first major controversy tied to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the second Trump administration arose from a rapid, large-scale interior enforcement surge that produced an early ...
ICE agents are not the uniformed Border Patrol officers who “patrol” the line; rather, they are investigators and deportation officers whose principal responsibilities lie in interior immigration enfo...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is institutionally the direct heir to pre‑2003 U.S. immigration and customs agencies — principally the Immigration and Naturalization Service and portion...
The documented leading immediate causes of death among people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent years include cardiovascular events (cardiac arrest, heart failure), ...
The United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a large, domestically focused enforcement agency whose stated mission is to protect national security and public safety by enforcing mor...