Law Enforcement Assistance Corner

The Law Enforcement Assistance Corner is an index of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) information for federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. This corner provides information on ICE's work in immigration and criminal law enforcement and the many ways they overlap. It pulls together links from the ICE.gov website to ensure that ICE's law enforcement partners can easily find relevant information in support of their mission and any current or future collaboration with ICE. In addition, the Law Enforcement Assistance Corner features two information sharing systems designed to allow the federal government to communicate sensitive information to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. This site has been designed as a tool to make exploring the work of ICE as easy as possible.

Law Enforcement Information Sharing

  • FOIA Library
    The Freedom of Information Act requires agencies to make various types of records available for public inspection in electronic form. This page provides these records broken down by ICE program or issue area.
  • Homeland Security Information Network
    This network was implemented by the Department of Homeland Security to allow local, state, tribal and federal government agencies to securely share sensitive, unclassified information that is relevant to preparing for, and responding to, threats to homeland security.
  • Law Enforcement Online
    This resource is administered by the FBI and used often by ICE, particularly the Secure Communities program, to share information with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Immigration Law Enforcement Resources

  • 287g Program
    The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 added Section 287(g) to the Immigration and Nationality Act, a provision that authorizes ICE to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to allow select, properly trained officers perform immigration law enforcement functions under the supervision of ERO officers.
  • Criminal Alien Program
    This program provides ICE-wide direction and support in the identification and arrest of those aliens who are incarcerated within federal, state and local correctional facilities, as well as at-large criminal aliens.
  • Detention Management
    Learn more about ICE's Detention Management Division, which is housed within ERO. This division oversees the nation's largest civil detention system, comprised of more than 250 local and state facilities.
  • DHS ICE Immigration Detainer – Notice of Action Form
    This form advises a law enforcement agency to maintain custody of a subject wanted for an immigration violation for a period not to exceed 48 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) beyond the time when the subject would have otherwise been released, to allow ICE to take custody of the subject.
  • Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Liaisons
    This interactive map highlights each field office's area of responsibility and allows the user to click on a particular area of responsibility to view the name and contact information of the related ERO field liaison.
  • Fugitive Operations
    The National Fugitive Operations Program identifies, locates and arrests removable aliens who have been convicted of crimes or who are fugitive aliens, aliens previously removed from the United States, or aliens who enter the United States illegally or otherwise defy the integrity of U.S. immigration laws and border control.
  • ICE ACCESS
    The ICE Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ICE ACCESS) initiative was developed to promote the various programs or tools that ICE offers to assist state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.
  • Law Enforcement Support Center
    The Law Enforcement Support Center is a national point of contact available 24/7 that provides customs information, immigration status and identity information, as well as real-time assistance to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies regarding aliens involved in criminal activity (suspected, arrested or convicted).
  • Online Detainee Locator System
    This tool allows a user to identify the detention facility holding a particular alien by entering his or her Alien # or certain pieces of biographical information.
  • Removal Statistics
    Annual statistics of aliens removed by ICE from the United States. and the proportion of those removals that fall within ICE's enforcement priorities can be found here.
  • Secure Communities
    Secure Communities uses an already-existing federal information-sharing partnership between ICE and FBI that helps to identify criminal aliens lodged subsequent to an arrest without imposing new or additional requirements on state and local law enforcement.
  • Tool Kit for Prosecutors
    This tool kit provides prosecutors information about the many points of intersection between immigration enforcement and criminal prosecution, including guidance on keeping aliens in the United States who would otherwise be removed; or gaining entry into the United States for aliens not authorized to come into the county, for the purpose of having them testify at a criminal trial. The tool kit also details the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.

Criminal Law Enforcement Resources

  • Child Exploitation
    Often in concert with state, local and tribal law enforcement partners, ICE investigates child pornographers, child sex tourists and facilitators, human smugglers and traffickers of minors, criminal aliens convicted of offenses against minors, and those removed for child exploitation offenses who have returned illegally.
  • Drug Enforcement Task Forces
    Learn more about how ICE brings to bear its investigative expertise in money laundering and bulk cash smuggling to combat drug trafficking. Also highlighted is ICE's participation with state, local and triballaw enforcement partners in numerous high-intensity drug trafficking area task forces and organized crime drug enforcement task forces.
  • HSI Tip Line
    This phone and online system alert ICE to drug trafficking, human trafficking, gang activity, terrorism and various other threats.
  • Human Trafficking
    Provides information on ICE enforcement initiatives, victim assistance and public outreach efforts related to human trafficking.
  • ICE ACCESS
    The ICE Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ICE ACCESS) initiative was developed to promote the various programs or tools that ICE offers to assist state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.
  • Operation Community Shield (gang enforcement)
    Under this initiative, ICE actively works with state, local tribal and foreign law enforcement partners to locate, investigate and prosecute gang members and to remove them from the United States when applicable.