ICE Pathways Programs

The Office of the Director is comprised of several different offices including the Office of Public Affairs, Office of Congressional Relations, Office of Principal Legal Advisor, Office of Professional Responsibility, Office of Detention Policy and Planning, and the Office of State, Local and Tribal Coordination. 

Common positions include: 

• administrative officers;
• administrative technicians;
• attorneys;
• criminal investigators;
• legal assistants;
• librarians;
• management and program analysts;
• office automation assistants;
• program managers;
• public affairs specialists; and
• writer/editors.

ICE’s Management and Administration includes professional managers and mission support staff who make ICE’s mission possible. Management and Administration oversees ICE’s budget, expenditures, accounting and finance, procurement, human resources and personnel, workforce recruitment, equal employment opportunity, information technology systems, facilities, property and equipment needs. In addition, Management and Administration identifies and tracks the agency’s performance measurements.

Management and Administration also ensures collaboration with internal stakeholders to increase diversity, guarantees timely responses to Freedom of Information Act requests and supports the agency’s training needs.

Common positions include:

• accountants;
• accounting technicians;
• administrative officers;
• auditors;
• contract specialists;
• engineers;
• equal employment opportunity assistants;
• equal employment opportunity specialists;
• equipment specialists;
• human resources specialists;
• human resources assistants;
• legal assistants;
• management and program analysts;
• paralegal specialists;
• supply technicians; and
• training specialists.

ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) enforces the nation’s immigration laws in a fair and effective manner.  It identifies and apprehends removable aliens, detains these individuals when necessary and removes illegal aliens from the United States.  This unit prioritizes the apprehension, arrest and removal of convicted criminals, those who pose a threat to national security, fugitives and recent border entrants.  Individuals seeking asylum also work with ERO.  ERO transports removable aliens from point-to-point, manages aliens in custody or in an alternative to detention program, provides access to legal resources and representatives of advocacy groups and removes individuals from the United States who have been ordered to be deported.

Comprising seven headquarters divisions and 24 field offices, ERO consists of approximately 7,800 employees and manages a budget of approximately $2.9 billion.

Common positions include:

• criminal investigators;
• electronic technicians;
• heavy equipment operators;
• intelligence research specialists;
• inventory management specialists;
• medical officers;
• medical records technicians;
• pipefitters;
• recreation specialists;
• radiologic technologists;
• statisticians;
• telecommunication specialists
• traffic management specialists;
• utility system repair operators;
• management and program analysts;
• detention and removal assistants;
• seized property specialists; and
• deportation officers.

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) directorate is a critical asset in ICE’s mission. It is responsible for investigating a wide range of domestic and international activities, including the illegal movement of people and goods into, within and out of the United States.

HSI uses its legal authority to investigate cybercrime, export enforcement issues, financial crime, human rights violations and human smuggling, immigration crime and the smuggling of narcotics, weapons and other types of contraband.  HSI special agents also conduct investigations aimed at protecting critical infrastructure industries that are vulnerable to sabotage, attack or exploitation.

In addition to ICE’s criminal investigations, HSI oversees the agency’s international affairs operations and intelligence functions.

HSI consists of more than 9,000 employees, of which approximately 6,600 are special agents, who are assigned to more than 200 cities throughout the United States and in 48 countries around the world.

Common positions include:

• criminal investigators;
• financial analysts;
• fingerprint technicians;
• intelligence research specialists;
• management and program analysts;
• photographers;
• physical scientists; and
• program managers.