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DHS/ICE/PIA-015 Enforcement Integrated Database

The Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared common database repository for several DHS law enforcement and homeland security applications. EID is owned and operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It captures and maintains information related to the investigation, arrest, booking, detention, and removal of persons encountered during immigration and criminal law enforcement investigations and operations conducted by ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), components within DHS. DHS personnel access the data in EID using the ENFORCE suite of software applications, such as the ENFORCE Alien Removal Module (EARM). EARM supports ICE’s processing and removal of aliens from the United States. The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for EID was published in January 2010 and was last updated in January 2016.

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Use of Segregation in ICE Detention

The safety and security of detainees is a primary consideration for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As such, the agency recently issued a new directive on use of segregation in ICE detention, which complements the requirements of the Performance-Based National Detention Standards.

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Department of Homeland Security Counternarcotics Doctrine

Department of Homeland Security Counternarcotics Doctrine

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Appendices to the STFRC Environmental Assessment

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the DHS procedures for implementing NEPA (DHS Directive 023-01, Environmental Planning Program), and the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) NEPA implementing regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508, DHS prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) to evaluate the potential impacts to the human environment resulting from increased Departmental activities necessary to process, detain, and transport unaccompanied noncitizen children and family units who have crossed the southwest border of the United States. DHS and its Component, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prepared a supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the proposed construction and operation of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas to house family units that have crossed the border. The appendices to the SEA are available here.

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Finding of No Significant Impact for the South Texas Family Residential Center

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the DHS procedures for implementing NEPA (DHS Directive 023-01, Environmental Planning Program), and the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) NEPA implementing regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508, DHS prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) to evaluate the potential impacts to the human environment resulting from increased Departmental activities necessary to process, detain, and transport unaccompanied noncitizen children and family units who have crossed the southwest border of the United States. DHS and its Component, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prepared a supplemental Environmental Assessment to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the proposed construction and operation of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas to house family units that have crossed the border. The supplemental Environmental Assessment resulted in a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI).

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ICE Response to Task Force on Secure Communities

The Task Force on Secure Communities is a subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee (HSAC) and was created in June 2011 at the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security. The HSAC, which is composed of leaders from state and local government, first responder agencies, the private sector, and academia, provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary on matters related to homeland security.

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Statement for the record of the ICE before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing titled "Does Administrative Amnesty Harm Our Efforts to Gain and Maintain Operational Control of the Border"

In the last two and a half years, ICE has made unprecedented strides across the agency, and as a result, has made communities across America, and Americans around the world, safer and more secure. Kumar Kibble testified discussed successes and opportunities as we move into a new year.

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Report Immigration or Customs Violations

Suspected immigration or customs violations should be reported directly to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Statement of Gary Mead, Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, "H.R.1932, the "Keep Our

Gary Mead discussed non-removable aliens and the impact of Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 121 S. Ct. 2491 (2001), on the day-to-day operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.

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Privacy Documents for ICE

Privacy Documents for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Documents including DHS/ICE/PIA-0001 through DHS/ICE/PIA-061 and retired PIAs.