Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 23

ICE Plays Key Role In Secure Border Initiative

ICE will play a key role in the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) unveiled November 2 by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who called the program “an ambitious effort to address a serious threat to our nation’s security-the continual influx of illegal migrants across our borders.”

In a message to all DHS employees, Chertoff said the SBI provides a comprehensive view of immigration that aims for nothing less than to gain full control of the nation’s borders. Chertoff said the SBI is built on a foundation of border security, interior enforcement and a temporary worker program, and SBI will completely eliminate the “catch and release” style of border enforcement by re-engineering the ICE detention and removal process.

“By increasing detention space and minimizing the time that aliens spend in our custody,” Chertoff said, “we will transform border enforcement into a ‘catch and remove’ program.”

Chertoff said that almost 2,500 new ICE and CBP officers will be hired as a result of the initiative. He said SBI, in addition to border operations, would also focus on interior enforcement, strengthening efforts to combat document fraud and monitor the worksite to ensure that employers who violate the law are punished. Beyond the border and the workplace, SBI will expand ICE’s fugitive operations program, and develop a robust ICE criminal alien program that will target and remove foreign-born illegal aliens incarcerated in federal and state jails.

“SBI is a team effort that will require the collective energy of the entire department,” Chertoff said. “Congress already has provided us with the resources in our FY 2006 appropriations to start moving forward with this important priority. Your continued dedication and support of the SBI will result in a safer and more secure America.”

For more specific details on the SBI, check out the DHS SBI Fact Sheet, posted on DHS Online at https://dhsonline.dhs.gov.

The DHS FY 2006 appropriations include more than $30.8 billion in net discretionary spending—a 4.7 percent increase over FY 2005. In total, with mandatory and fee-based programs, the DHS budget for FY 2006 is $40.6 billion.

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