In this essay i will be discussing information found on the ice.gov website regarding the operating procedures and goals from the specific context of the U. S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which operates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.
To better understand the goals of ICE it is best to look at what their mission statement specifies, ICE’S mission is as quoted by the website "to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety". ICE was officially formed back in March 1, 2003 under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the events of September 11, 2001. With this act, law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization …show more content…
government with an employee base of 20,000 working within 400 offices domestically and in 48 different countries abroad operating with a budget around $6 billion. Throughout the life of the organization there have been several changes in terms of the addition of services and the removal of certain services such as the Federal Protective Service which was later transferred from ICE to the National Protection and Programs Directorate on October 28, 2009. ICE has evolved from the three early services into a three directorate based organization structure that primarily involves the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to provide the enforcement and investigative services while the final directorate Management and Administration, provides legal support and professional management for …show more content…
An example under HSI directorate of this mutual communication between agencies under ICE is the intelligence office which works closely with other federal, state, and local agencies. In this regard the intelligence office works with the use of information from other agencies to perform an analysis in the tasking of assigning intelligence analysts to look at targeted crimes such as financial crimes, counter-proliferation, narcotics. With this intelligence and investigative services also enters the special response teams portion of ICE which in conjunction with local and state agencies offers services similar to SWAT
To better understand the goals of ICE it is best to look at what their mission statement specifies, ICE’S mission is as quoted by the website "to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety". ICE was officially formed back in March 1, 2003 under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the events of September 11, 2001. With this act, law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization …show more content…
government with an employee base of 20,000 working within 400 offices domestically and in 48 different countries abroad operating with a budget around $6 billion. Throughout the life of the organization there have been several changes in terms of the addition of services and the removal of certain services such as the Federal Protective Service which was later transferred from ICE to the National Protection and Programs Directorate on October 28, 2009. ICE has evolved from the three early services into a three directorate based organization structure that primarily involves the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to provide the enforcement and investigative services while the final directorate Management and Administration, provides legal support and professional management for …show more content…
An example under HSI directorate of this mutual communication between agencies under ICE is the intelligence office which works closely with other federal, state, and local agencies. In this regard the intelligence office works with the use of information from other agencies to perform an analysis in the tasking of assigning intelligence analysts to look at targeted crimes such as financial crimes, counter-proliferation, narcotics. With this intelligence and investigative services also enters the special response teams portion of ICE which in conjunction with local and state agencies offers services similar to SWAT