About

Leadership

Secure Communities
Marc Rapp (acting)

Marc Rapp is the acting executive director for the ICE Secure Communities Program Management Office. The Secure Communities initiative, which was announced in March 2008, is designed to change criminal alien enforcement by using technology to share information among law enforcement agencies and by applying risk-based methodologies to focus resources on assisting all local communities remove high-risk criminal aliens. Mr Rapp has spent his career at the cutting edge of immigration enforcement, working to develop and deploy new systems and processes to improve criminal immigration enforcement in the United States, a background well-suited to help lead SC.

Mr. Rapp began his federal law enforcement career in 1994, when he started working for the INS. Prior to SC, Mr. Rapp oversaw the federal component of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP)’s transition from the Office of Investigations to Detention and Removal Operations. He was intimately involved in developing policies and plans to articulate goals to field entities, and he developed a successful training program to ensure that these new goals were not only met, but also were surpassed.

Mr. Rapp holds a Master’s Degree in Chinese Studies from Saint John’s University and a B.A. in history from Queens College. He speaks several languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, and Spanish.