News Releases and Statements

A federal grand jury on Thursday returned separate indictments against five men for allegedly re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents and other law enforcement partners arrested 19 people, including seven with criminal records, as part of a four-day enforcement surge.

Eight associates of the Surenos 13 gang are facing new criminal charges or removal from the United States, following a joint anti-gang enforcement action Wednesday led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Homeland Security Investigations in Columbia, the York County Sheriff's Office and the Rock Hill Police Department.

Twenty-eight people, who have either criminal records or an order to depart the country, were arrested during a four-day enforcement surge by agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and other law enforcement partners.

This Midwest operation is part of a series of similar Cross Check operations around the country. In total, ICE has arrested 2,064 convicted criminals, fugitives and aliens around the country

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday deported Ricky Marwick Rankin who was wanted on probation violation charges in the Cayman Islands.

Officers repatriate a Mexican man captured in Los Angeles who is wanted in Mexico for a decade-old kidnapping and murder. Since 2007, ICE has arrested more than 200 foreign criminal fugitives.

A total of 102 individuals with ties to 19 different street gangs are facing criminal charges or deportation following a six-day, multi-agency enforcement action in Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz. spearheaded by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

More than 90 of those arrested during the state's largest ICE-led gang enforcement action are being prosecuted criminally. The others detained during the four-month surge face deportation.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday deported Valerio Ronchi, 59, wanted on criminal charges of sex assault of a minor in Brazil, and Joao de Oliveira, 51, wanted for murder in Brazil. Ronchi and de Oliveira, both Brazilian nationals, were turned over to authorities in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

During an enforcement surge in Ariz., agents arrest a 45-year-old Mexican citizen who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a California telemarketing scheme that netted more than $820,000.

ICE and DHS law enforcement partners arrest 19 criminal aliens, seize weapons, police gear, fake documents during 4-day surge.

A Mexican national who had been deported three times by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), was sentenced on Monday to 11 years in prison. This sentence was announced by Kenneth L. Landgrebe, ICE's field office director in Houston.

Top 5 ICE news stories for the week ending July 30, 2010

ICE makes arrests during 2 operations this summer.

U.S. DHS Deputy Press Secretary Matt Chandler issued the following statement July 28 in response to a federal judge's decision on the SB1070 immigration enforcement law in Arizona.

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a new biometric information sharing capability in Lewis and Clark and Missoula counties that helps federal immigration officials identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime...

Selvin Omar Plata, 31, was arrested through ERO's Criminal Alien Program (CAP), which focuses on removing aliens who are incarcerated in local or state jails following convictions that make them a danger to national security or a risk to public safety.

Two previously deported felons were among the 22 immigration violators arrested by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a three-day enforcement surge in Idaho's Magic Valley and the surrounding area.

After his fifth conviction for the same crime, a Mexican man was sentenced on Thursday to serve five years in federal prison for unlawfully re-entering the United States after having been deported following an aggravated felony conviction.

ICE-HSI, working closely with the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office and the Fairfax County Police Department, continues to target foreign-born gang members and gang associates in Northern Virginia.

ICE arrests 30 gang members and gang associates during a 5-day operation in Colorado.

On July 7, U.S. ICE and the Oakland County Sheriff's Office announced that ICE is using a new biometric information sharing capability in every county municipality to help federal immigration officials identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement's custody for a crime.

Enrique Andrade, 31, was arrested by ICE through the Criminal Alien Program (CAP), which screens and identifies criminal aliens for removal from the United States based on their criminal convictions.

Tomas Landaverde, 43, was arrested by ICE through the Criminal Alien Program, which screens and identifies criminal aliens for removal from the United States based on their criminal convictions.