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Secure Communities
Headline News
3/9/2009 Fairfax, VA New ICE program enhances identifying and removing criminal aliens in Fairfax county
2/25/2009 Dallas, TX New program enhances identifying and deporting criminal aliens in more north Texas law enforcement agencies
2/2/2009 San Antonio, TX New program enhances identifying and deporting criminal aliens in 6 southwest Texas counties
1/30/2009 Mesa, AZ New ICE program sparks arrest, prosecution of previously deported gang associate in Phoenix area
Mission
The Secure Communities strategy seeks to improve public safety by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to identify and remove criminal aliens from the United States. We coordinate all ICE planning, operational, technical, and fiscal activities devoted to transforming, modernizing, and optimizing the criminal alien enforcement process.
Background & Timeline
Congress provided the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with funding in FY 2008 to “improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens convicted of a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and who may be deportable, and remove them from the United States once they are judged deportable.”
