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Secure Communities
Headline News
1/26/2010 Waco, TX Secure Communities launched in McLennan County, Texas
1/12/2010 Sacramento, CA ICE Secure Communities criminal alien initiative expanded to Sacramento, Solano counties
1/5/2010 Santa Barbara, CA Secure Communities deployed to 2 more Calif. counties
12/16/2009 Miami, FL ICE Secure Communities initiative launched at Highlands, Lake and Monroe County jails
11/17/2009 Detroit, MI ICE initiative uses biometrics to enhance identification and removal of criminal aliens in Southeastern Michigan
11/17/2009 Atlanta, GA New ICE initiative launched in 3 Georgia counties
Mission
The Secure Communities strategy seeks to improve public safety by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to identify and remove criminal aliens from the United States. We coordinate all ICE planning, operational, technical, and fiscal activities devoted to transforming, modernizing, and optimizing the criminal alien enforcement process.
Background & Timeline
Congress provided the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with funding in FY 2008 to “improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens convicted of a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and who may be deportable, and remove them from the United States once they are judged deportable.”
