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Strategy to Accelerate and Expand Secure Communities

The Secure Communities strategy entails several steps to responsibly accelerate the development and expansion of the plan. With this approach we focus first on the most dangerous criminal aliens in locations where analysis determines they are most likely to reside. Prioritized deployment will deliver biometric identification to jurisdictions with the highest percentages of criminal aliens in the United States. Specifically we will:

  • Use modeling techniques to prioritize deployment to locations with the greatest amount of violent crimes committed by foreign-born persons.
  • Use modeling techniques to determine optimal transportation modes, logistics, and bed space capacity, and procure the right resources necessary to manage increased capacity throughout the immigration system.
  • Strengthen coordination of ICE efforts to prioritize apprehension and removal of at-large criminal aliens (those not currently in custody
  • Work with related programs, both within ICE and beyond, to identify additional process improvements.

Phased Implementation

ICE’s Secure Communities initiative is designed to accurately and efficiently identify criminal aliens; to prioritize them based on the severity of their crimes; and to help transform the systems and processes necessary to remove them from the United States.

To accomplish this, ICE is using biometric identification technologies currently in use by the FBI and other parts of DHS, and combining them in a new, powerful way. ICE is currently deploying across the nation to all jurisdictions, beginning by focusing on sites that represent the highest concentrations of the most dangerous criminal aliens.

Current and Planned Deployment

Deployment map

Recent Secure Communities Statistics

As of January 2010, biometric identification is available in 116 jurisdictions in 16 states. Each month, ICE will deploy to more sites, eventually producing millions of annual fingerprint submissions.

Activated Counties

As of January 2010

Arizona

Cochise
Pima
Pinal
Maricopa
Santa Cruz
Yavapai
Yuma

California

Imperial
Los Angeles
Sacramento
San Diego
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Solano
Ventura

Florida

Brevard
Broward
Charlotte
Clay
Collier
Duval
Highlands
Hillsborough
Lake
Manatee
Marion
Miami Dade
Monroe
Pinellas
St. Johns
St. Lucie

Georgia

Clayton
DeKalb
Gwinnett

Illinois

DuPage
Kane

Lousiana

Jefferson Parrish

Maryland

Price George's

Massachusetts

Suffolk

Michigan

Wayne

North Carolina

Buncombe
Cabarrus
Catawba
Cumberland
Duplin
Durham
Gaston
Harnett
Henderson
Mecklenburg
New Hanover
Orange
Wake

New Mexico

Bernalillo
Dona Ana
Grant
Hidalgo
Luna

Ohio

Cuyahoga
Franklin

Oklahoma

Oklahoma
Tulsa

Pennsylvania

Bucks
Montgomery
Philadelphia

Virginia

Fairfax
Prince William

Texas

Bexar
Brazoria
Brewster
Brooks
Collin
Culberson
Dallas/Collin/Denton-Carrollton PD
Dallas & Collin-Richardson PD
Dallas-Dallas County Jail
Dallas-Farmers Branch PD
Dallas-Irving PD
Dallas & Kaufman-Mesquite PD
Denton
Dimmit
El Paso
Fort Bend
Galveston
Grayson
Harris
Hidalgo
Hudspeth
Hunt
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jim Wells
Johnson
Kaufman
Kenedy
Kinney
Kleberg
Maverick
McLennan
Montgomery
Nueces
Pecos
Presidio
Real
Val Verde
Starr
Tarrant
TDCJ
Terrell
Travis
Uvalde
Webb
Willacy
Williamson
Zapata
Zavala

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