ICE consists of three directorates to accomplish the agency’s mission, including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Management and Administration (M&A).
ICE's primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.
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ICE executes its mission through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes, focusing on preventing terrorism, immigration enforcement and combating transnational crime.
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Since its inception in 2003, the National Fugitive Operations Program (NFOP) has arrested more than 445,000 removable aliens.
The National Fugitive Operations Program (NFOP) provides policy direction, strategic planning, and operational oversight for ERO’s efforts to locate, arrest and reduce the population of at-large removable aliens within the U.S. The NFOP manages budget, resource planning and investigative support to at-large enforcement efforts within the 24 ERO field offices, including 129 Fugitive Operations Teams that prioritize enforcement efforts toward aliens who present a heightened threat to national security and public safety, such as transnational gang members, child sex offenders and aliens with prior convictions for violent crimes. The NFOP is also responsible for ICE Probation and Parole Enforcement, the Mobile Criminal Alien Teams, and ERO’s Special Response Teams. NFOP plans and directs national enforcement operations to further national security and public safety objectives and provides logistical and operational support to local enforcement operations.
Operation Cross Check serves as the operational umbrella for focused enforcement efforts that target specific priority groups, such as at-large criminal aliens convicted of violent crimes.
Sex Offender Alien Removal (SOAR) is a coordinated foreign-born sex offender enforcement operation that builds on ICE’s ongoing efforts to target and remove these egregious criminal aliens from our communities. In support of this endeavor, ERO's Fugitive Operations Support Center (FOSC) has spearheaded a collaborative effort with the ERO Law Enforcement Support Center to identify criminal aliens who are registered as sex offenders.
The Most Wanted program is a vital ICE ERO tool in the location and arrest of the most dangerous fugitives and at-large criminal aliens.
The National Fugitive Operations Program has established a permanent liaison with INTERPOL at the national level to develop investigative leads and provide support to the Fugitive Operations Teams in the location and arrest of Fugitive Alien Removal (FAR) cases or "foreign fugitives". These foreign nationals are wanted for serious crimes committed abroad.
