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Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is comprised of the following seven program areas:

1. Immigration Investigations – investigating violations of the criminal and administrative provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act[?] (INA) and other related provisions of the United States Code.

2. Customs Investigations – investigating a range of issues including terrorist financing[?], export enforcement[?], money laundering, smuggling, fraud – including intellectual property rights violations, and cybercrimes[?].

3. Customs Air and Marine Interdiction – responsible for protecting the Nation's borders and the American people from the smuggling of narcotics[?], other contraband, and terrorist activity[?] with an integrated and coordinated air and marine interdiction force.

4. Federal Protective Service – responsible for providing a safe environment in which Federal agencies can conduct their business by reducing threats posed against the over 8,800 General Services Administration[?] (GSA)-controlled facilities nationwide.

5. Detention and Removal - responsible for promoting the public safety and national security by ensuring the departure from the United States of all removable aliens[?] through the fair enforcement of the nation's immigration laws.

6. Immigration Intelligence – responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence to immigration staff at all levels to aid in making day-to-day, mid-term, and long-term operational decisions; acquiring and allocating resources; and determining policy

7. Customs Intelligence – responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence data[?] for use by the operational elements of customs enforcement.

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