5 days ago · DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) duties are carried out through more than 400 federal statutes and focus on smart immigration enforcement, humane detention, preventing terrorism, and combating the illegal movement of people and goods.

Sep 18, 2024 · Immigration enforcement is the largest single area of responsibility for ICE. While certain responsibilities and close cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and others require significant ICE assets near the border, the majority of immigration enforcement work for ICE takes place in the country’s interior.

Sep 30, 2021 · Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced new Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law to better focus the Department’s resources on the apprehension and removal of noncitizens who are a threat to our national security, public safety, and border security and advance the interests of justice by ensuring a …

4 See, e.g., Memorandum from John Morton, Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, titled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Consistent with the Civil Immigration Enforcement Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and Removal of Aliens” (June 17, 2011), available at

Jun 4, 2024 · DHS has taken unprecedented actions to strengthen enforcement of our immigration laws and deter irregular migration, including referring record numbers of individuals into expedited removal. Over the past year, we have removed or returned more than three quarters of a million people, more than in any fiscal year since 2010:

Nov 29, 2021 · As described in the September 30th memo announcing the new guidelines, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will ensure there is a fair and equitable case review process that affords noncitizens and their representatives an opportunity to obtain expeditious review of an enforcement action taken.

Jan 23, 2025 · On October 8, 2021, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) responded to a Recommendation Memorandum issued in April 2021 by CRCL about the medical and mental health care provided by ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC) at IHSC-staffed detention facilities and IHSC’s oversight of detainee medical and mental health care at all ICE detention ...

Sep 14, 2021 · Administration of immigration benefits is the responsibility of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). In order to have a liaison between the public and DHS on immigration benefits matters, Congress created the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, which operates independently from USCIS.

Jun 10, 2024 · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees work hard to protect our country from terrorists, drug traffickers, criminals, and other people who try to enter our country illegally. They enforce the laws that keep American citizens safe. ICE employees have many different roles:

May 19, 2022 · DHS provides this guidance on assistance furnished by state and local law enforcement officers to DHS in its enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. This guidance primarily concerns assistance by such officers in the enforcement of the civil provisions of the INA, specifically, cooperation in the identification, apprehension, detention ...