Thread: 10 more North Carolina counties now ICE Secure Communities

I.C.E. News Release

August 10, 2010

10 North Carolina counties to benefit from ICE strategy to enhance the identification, removal of criminal aliens

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a new biometric information sharing capability in 10 western North Carolina 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. This capability is part of Secure Communities - ICE's comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identification and removal of criminal aliens from the United States.

Previously, fingerprint-based biometric records were taken of individuals charged with a crime and booked into custody and checked for criminal history information against the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Now, through enhanced information sharing between DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), fingerprint information submitted through the state to the FBI will be automatically checked against both the FBI criminal history records in IAFIS and the biometrics-based immigration records in DHS's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT).

If fingerprints match those of someone in DHS's biometric system, the new automated process notifies ICE. ICE evaluates each case to determine the individual's immigration status and takes appropriate enforcement action. This includes aliens who are in lawful status and those who are present without lawful authority. Once identified through fingerprint matching, ICE will respond with a priority placed on aliens convicted of the most serious offenses first-such as those with convictions for major drug offenses, murder, rape and kidnapping.

"The Secure Communities strategy provides ICE with an effective tool to identify criminal aliens in local custody," said Secure Communities Executive Director David Venturella. "Enhancing public safety is at the core of ICE's mission. Our goal is to use biometric information sharing to remove criminal aliens, preventing them from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our law enforcement partners."

Today's announcement includes the following 10 North Carolina jurisdictions: Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, Davidson, Forsyth, Iredell, Lincoln, McDowell, Polk and Rutherford counties. With the expansion of the biometric information sharing capability to these counties, ICE is now using it in 39 North Carolina jurisdictions. Across the country, ICE is using this capability in 544 jurisdictions in 27 states. ICE expects to make it available in jurisdictions nationwide by 2013.

Since ICE began using this enhanced information sharing capability in October 2008, immigration officers have removed from the United States more than 9,800 criminal aliens convicted of Level 1 crimes, such as murder, rape and kidnapping. Additionally, ICE has removed more than 24,800 criminal aliens convicted of Level 2 and 3 crimes, including burglary and serious property crimes, which account for the majority of crimes committed by aliens. ICE does not regard aliens charged with, but not yet convicted of crimes, as "criminal aliens." Instead, a "criminal alien" is an alien convicted of a crime. In accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act, ICE continues to take action on aliens subject to removal as resources permit.

The IDENT system is maintained by DHS's US-VISIT program and IAFIS is maintained by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).

"US VISIT is proud to support ICE, helping provide decision makers with comprehensive, reliable information when and where they need it," said US-VISIT Director Robert Mocny. "By enhancing the interoperability of DHS's and the FBI's biometric systems, we are able to give federal, state and local decision makers information that helps them better protect our communities and our nation."

"Under this plan, ICE will be utilizing FBI system enhancements that allow improved information sharing at the state and local law enforcement level based on positive identification of incarcerated criminal aliens," said Daniel D. Roberts, assistant director of the FBI's CJIS Division. "Additionally, ICE and the FBI are working together to take advantage of the strong relationships already forged between the FBI and state and local law enforcement necessary to assist ICE in achieving its goals."

For more information, visit www.ice.gov/secure_communities.

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Last Modified: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1008/100810charlotte.htm

I've seen several of these stories in the last couple weeks

Bottom line , unless the illegal is an axe murderer with 10 kills , chances are they will be released back into this county.

this is all a sham, a joke , an evil carnival ride to make this country believe they are actually doing something

THEY ARE DOING NOTHING,

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

I've seen several of these stories in the last couple weeks

Bottom line , unless the illegal is an axe murderer with 10 kills , chances are they will be released back into this county.

this is all a sham, a joke , an evil carnival ride to make this country believe they are actually doing something

THEY ARE DOING NOTHING,

"The documents obtained by the immigration rights groups show that a total of 47,000 people have been removed since 2008 after being flagged under the Secure Communities fingerprint matching program. Of those, about 28 percent were non criminals, meaning they were arrested and booked, but not convicted."

"The advocates noted that in some counties the proportion of non criminals removed through Secure Communities was much higher – 82 percent in Travis County, Texas, for example."

U.S. steps up fingerprinting program along border

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-208911.html

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

I've seen several of these stories in the last couple weeks

Bottom line , unless the illegal is an axe murderer with 10 kills , chances are they will be released back into this county.

this is all a sham, a joke , an evil carnival ride to make this country believe they are actually doing something

THEY ARE DOING NOTHING,

California had the highest percentage of immigrants deported who had committed Level 1 crimes, with 38 percent of a total 14,823 immigrants sent out of the country, according to statistics from 24 of the states participating through the end of June. In Georgia, 39 percent of 624 immigrants removed were non-criminals, the highest rate among the states.

Fingerprint sharing led to deportation of 47,000

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-208851.html

Study: 137,000 Criminals Deported So Far in 2010
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-208208.html
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As of the end of September 2009, ICE removed 387,000 illegal aliens from the country, including 136,000 who were convicted of crimes in the U.S.

387,000 illegal aliens removed in F.Y. 2009
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-182539-ice.html+removes

U.S. Repatriated 359,455 Mexicans in 2009
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-183998.html

111,000 Criminal Aliens Identified by ICE in 2009
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1258044387591.shtm
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177810.html

34,600 Criminal Illegal Aliens IDed in Florida
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177991.html

24,000 criminal illegal aliens IDed in AZ.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177989.html

I.C.E. News Release
August 06, 2008
ICE TAKES 10,000th VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIEN GANG MEMBER OFF U.S. STREETS
I.C.E. TAKES 10,000th VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIEN GANG MEMBER OFF U.S. STREETS
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-126684-000th.html

Jan. 27, 2010
Since its inception in 2005, ICE agents have arrested 16,144 street gang members and associates. Of those arrested, 202 were gang leaders and 2,898 were MS-13 gang members or associates authorities say.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186715.html

June 3, 2010
Since ICE began Operation Community Shield in February 2005, more than 17,500 gang members and associates belonging to more than 900 different gangs have been arrested nationwide.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-201706.html

8,700 criminal illegal aliens located in the L.A. County jails during the last two months
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177905.html

6,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens found in San Diego County jails
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177988.html

2,266 ARRESTED $154 Mil. Cash, 74 Tons of Drugs Seized
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-202403.html

596 criminal aliens arrested in targeted ICE operation throughout the southeastern U.S.
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1004/100430washingtondc.htm

476 gang members & criminals arrested by I.C.E.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186715.html


I.C.E. arrest nearly 300 foreigners with criminal records
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-181146.html


243 Illegal aliens denied entry into CA. last weekend
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-181810.html

137 criminal aliens arrested in Ohio during ICE's Operation Cross Check
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-197676.html

50 arrested in California "RACE WAR"
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186765.html

20 charged in bust of Riverside gang
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186751.html