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Secure Communities

Welcome to Secure Communities

Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens (Secure Communities) is working with ICE senior leadership and offices, as well as the broader law enforcement community, to better identify criminal aliens, prioritize enforcement actions on those posing the greatest threat to public safety, and transform the entire criminal alien enforcement process. Through improved technology, continual data analysis, and timely information sharing with a broad range of law enforcement agency (LEA) partners, we are helping to protect communities across the country.

Goals and Objectives

Goal 1

Identify criminal aliens through modernized information sharing

  • Biometric Identification—Deploy a biometric identification system nationally
  • Integrated Record Check—Conduct integrated DHS/DOJ record checks on all arrested and incarcerated persons, and on criminals previously released from custody
  • Timely Response—Provide results of record checks to law enforcement agency partners promptly
Goal 2

Prioritize enforcement actions to ensure apprehension and removal of dangerous criminal aliens

  • Threat-Based Approach—Prioritize criminal aliens for enforcement action based on their threat to public safety
  • Removal—Prioritize removal efforts on highest-threat category of removable criminal aliens
Goal 3

Transform criminal alien enforcement processes and systems to achieve lasting results

  • Process Efficiency—Reduce time spent in ICE custody by criminal aliens
  • Optimize Capacity—Optimize ICE capacity for bed space, transportation, and staffing
  • Strengthen Capabilities—Strengthen analytical, planning, and performance management capabilities to increase accountability and transparency
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