Factual Documents
Below are fact sheets and government reports relating to ICE 287(g).
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ICE Fact Sheet:
Updated Facts on ICE’s 287(g) Program
https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/287g-reform
ICE has implemented comprehensive guidelines for ICE field offices that supervise 287(g) partnerships; requires 287(g) officers to maintain comprehensive alien arrest, detention, and removal data; strengthened the 287(g) basic training course and created a new refresher training course; deployed additional supervisors to the field to ensure greater oversight over 287(g) operations; and established an Internal Advisory Committee. Focus on criminal aliens.
ICE 287(g) Information Page:
Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act
Main 287(g) page, including currently active MOAs.
ICE Tip Line:
Homeland Security Investigations Tip Line: 866-DHS-2-ICE
Individuals can report suspicious criminal activity to the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tip Line 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Includes terrorism, cyber crimes, drug smuggling, money laundering, human trafficking/smuggling, human rights violators, import/export violations, child pornography/exploitation, document and benefit fraud, gang-related crimes, intellectual property rights violations, worksite enforcement.
ICE Criminal Alien Program (formerly ACCESS program):
Criminal Alien Program
https://www.ice.gov/criminal-alien-program
The Criminal Alien Program (CAP) provides direction and support in the biometric and biographic identification, arrest, and removal of priority aliens who are incarcerated within federal, state, and local prisons and jails, as well as at-large criminal aliens that have circumvented identification.
ICE Border Enforcement Security Task Force (formerly ACCESS program):
Border Enforcement Security Task Force
The BEST investigative model is a comprehensive response to the growing threat to border security, public safety and national security. BESTs eliminate the barriers between federal and local investigations (access to both federal and state prosecutors) and close the gap with international partners in multinational criminal investigations.
DHS Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force (formerly ACCESS program):
Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force
https://www.dhs.gov/hsi/task-forces/dbftf
The DHS places a high priority on investigating document and benefit fraud. These types of fraud pose a severe threat to national security and public safety because they create a vulnerability that may enable terrorists, other criminals and illegal aliens to gain entry to and remain in the United States.
ICE Operation Predator (formerly ACCESS program):
Operation Predator – Targeting child exploitation and sexual crimes
https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/predator
Under Operation Predator, the agency’s flagship initiative targeting child sex predators, ICE has made more than 8,000 criminal arrests since 2003.
ICE Law Enforcement Support Center (formerly ACCESS program):
Law Enforcement Support Center
The center is a single national point of contact that provides timely immigration status, identity information, and real-time assistance to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies on aliens suspected, arrested, or convicted of criminal activity.
ICE Operation Firewall (formerly ACCESS program):
Operation Firewall
https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/firewall
Operation Firewall is a comprehensive operation targeting criminal organizations involved in the smuggling of large quantities of U.S. currency.
Congressional Research Report:
Interior Immigration Enforcement: Criminal Alien Programs (2016)
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R44627.pdf
Describes enforcement levels by program, the level of appropriations for different criminal alien programs, and the role of state and local law enforcement agencies in immigration enforcement.