Success Stories: Operation Predator Nabs Over 10,000 in Four Years

Objective: Continue to Protect our Nation from Dangerous People

Situation		Action
Each year, millions of children around the world fall prey to sexual predators Estimates: 1-in-5 girls and 1-in-10 boys in the U.S. are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood ICE targets child pornographers, child sex tourists and facilitators, human smugglers and traffickers of minors, criminal aliens convicted of offenses against minors and those deported for child exploitation offenses who have returned to the U.S. illegally		2003: ICE develops Operation Predator, an initiative to identify, investigate and arrest child predators As part of the effort: ICE creates National Child Victim Identification System (NCVIS) partnering with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the U.S. Secret Service U.S. Postal Inspection Service, FBI & Department of Justice, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces and other agencies are also involved
Result
ICE has arrested more than 10,000 child predators nationwide in its first four years of existence The targets include U.S. citizens and non-citizens More than 85% of the Operation Predator arrests made are of non-citizen sex offenders whose crimes make them removable from the U.S. More than 5,500 of them have been deported
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