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Protecting National Security and Upholding Public Safety

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Protecting National Security and Upholding Public Safety

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    1. Protecting National Security and Upholding Public Safety

    2. 5 Operational Divisions Office of Detention and Removal Operations Office of Investigations Federal Protective Service Office of Intelligence Office of International Affairs

    3. Office of Investigations Investigates national security, financial and smuggling violations, including illegal arms exports, financial crimes, commercial fraud, human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, child pornography, child exploitation and immigration fraud

    4. Office of Investigations Using our unique immigration and customs law enforcement authorities, we investigate many issues such as: immigration crimes, human rights violations, human smuggling; narcotics, weapons and other types of smuggling; and financial crimes, cyber crime and export enforcement issues.

    5. Office of Investigations ICE special agents also conduct investigations to protect critical infrastructure industries that are vulnerable to sabotage, attack or exploitation.

    6. Office of Investigations Denver Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Copp. Geographically one of the largest ICE Offices in the nation. Encompasses four states: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Utah -- more than 434,000 square miles. SAC Denver’s geography also includes more than 500 miles of the Northern border, and we service 12 international ports of entry. SAC DENVER oversees 17 ICE field offices.

    7. Partnerships with LEAs ICE Officers and Agents routinely partner with other law enforcement agencies to accomplish the common goal of combating crime. Ultimately, these partnerships are mutually beneficial by helping keep our communities safe.

    8. OI Programs The Denver SAC office comprises 5 Groups that investigate the following criminal areas: Counter Proliferation Investigations/- Arms and Strategic Tech (Restricted Tech) /Import Fraud Cyber Crimes, Identity theft and child porn Worksite Enforcement, which includes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens Financial, which includes money laundering and “structuring.” A new ICE initiative targets unlicensed money services businesses protecting the vulnerabilities in our financial system.

    9. OI Programs Smuggling Narcotics/Contraband Smuggling: Disrupts and dismantles criminal organizations involved in smuggling narcotics and all forms of contraband into and out of the United States. Includes tracking and seizing illegal proceeds derived from these activities.

    10. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Operation Community Shield: Targets violent street gangs. ICE partners with local, state, federal and international law enforcement agencies to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach. We conduct criminal investigations and other law enforcement operations against violent streets that pose a threat to public safety. Since 2005, ICE has arrested more than 11,100 gang members and gang associates from 890 different gangs, and seized 388 firearms..

    11. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Operation Predator: A nationwide ICE initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. Since Operation Predator was launched in July 2003, ICE agents have arrested more than 11,500 individuals – including 323 in Colorado.

    12. ICE/OI Major Initiatives The Compliance Enforcement Unit (CEU): An investigative component charged with tracking and pursuing foreign students, exchange visitors and other non-immigrant visitors who violate their immigration status.

    13. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Document and Benefit Fraud Task Forces: Target and seize illicit proceeds, Dismantle criminal organizations that threaten national security and public safety, and Address the vulnerabilities that currently exist in the immigration process. Benefit fraud willfully misrepresents material fact on a petition or application to gain an immigrant benefit. Document fraud manufactures, counterfeits, alters, sells, and/or uses identity documents and other fraudulent documents to circumvent immigration laws or for other criminal activity.

    14. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit: Investigates persons in the US who have been involved with genocide, torture, war crimes, murder and other serious human rights violations.

    15. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Trafficking vs. Smuggling: Human Trafficking — Sex trafficking, involves a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act is under 18 years old. Human trafficking may also include: recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion to subject to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.

    16. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Trafficking vs. Smuggling (cont’d): Human Smuggling is defined as: importing people into the U.S. to deliberately evade U.S. immigration laws. This offense includes bringing illegal aliens into the U.S., as well as unlawfully transporting and harboring aliens already in the United States. Trafficking and smuggling are not interchangeable terms. Smuggling is transportation-based. Trafficking is exploitation-based.

    17. ICE/OI Major Initiatives National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Coordination Center: The IPR Center serves as a fusion point for intelligence on IPR violations from other government agencies, industry, transportation providers and others. U.S. industries lose an estimated $250 Billion annually due to IPR violations.

    18. ICE/OI Major Initiatives The IPR Center employs a three-pronged strategy in the fight against intellectual property crime: Investigation Interdiction Training and Outreach

    19. ICE/OI Major Initiatives IMAGE - An acronym for “ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers.” This program educates employers on proper hiring procedures, fraudulent document detection and use of the E-verify employment system and anti-discrimination procedures.

    20. ICE/OI Major Initiatives Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC): The LESC is the Department of Homeland Security’s single national point of contact that provides timely immigration status and identity information and real-time assistance to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies on aliens suspected, arrested or convicted of criminal activity. In fiscal year 2007, the LESC received 728,243 requests for information.

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