Marc Rapp, Acting Executive Director

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.

M. Yvonne Evans, Acting Deputy Director

M. Yvonne Evans is the Enforcement Portfolio, Branch Chief at the ICE Secure Communities Program Management Office. Prior to this, Mrs. Evans was Deputy Assistant Director, Detention Management Division with the ICE Office of Detention and Removal Operations. In this capacity, Mrs. Evans was responsible for providing extensive guidance to executive and senior managers as well as to field offices on the management o one of the most highly transient and diverse populations of any correctional or detention system in the world. The ICE detention system consisted of over 350 local and state facilities acquired through intergovernmental service agreements, seven contract detention facilities, and eight ICE owned facilities.

Prior to this, Mrs. Evans established the dedicated, high-level operational unit to manage national issues related to the detention of alien juveniles and families by ICE, the Juvenile and Family Residential Management Unit. Mrs. Evans began her law enforcement career with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1984 and has held the positions of Immigration Inspector, Deportation Officer, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer, Assistant Officer in Charge and has led numerous national programs during her tenure at ICE Headquarters.