U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement (Ice)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is an American federal law enforcement agency that operates under the United States Department of Homeland Security. It enforces federal laws that govern border control, customs, trade, and immigration to promote homeland security and public safety. The agency has investigative authority over criminal violations of the U.S. law relating to illicit trade, travel, immigration, and finance as well as violations of employment verification laws and visa violations in the U.S. and abroad. The agency is most notorious for the immigration raids conducted by its Enforcement and Removal Operations Unit which usually result in the wholesale detention and deportation of undocumented workers. Founded in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ICE now has more than 20,000 employees in offices in all 50 states of the United States and 47 foreign countries.

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