Overview
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the former U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. ICE now has more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in more than 400 offices in the United States and around the world. ICE’s mission is to protect America through criminal investigations and enforcing immigration laws to preserve national security and public safety. The operational arms of ICE are Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is the principal investigative component of DHS and is responsible for investigating, disrupting, and dismantling transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and terrorist networks that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States. Its workforce consists of more than 8,700 employees, including special agents, criminal analysts, mission support personnel and contract staff assigned to more than 237 offices across the United States and more than 93 offices around the world.
HSI has broad legal authority to conduct federal criminal investigations into the illegal cross-border movement of people, goods, money, technology and other contraband throughout the United States. HSI utilizes these authorities to investigate a wide array of transnational crime, including: terrorism; national security threats; narcotics smuggling; transnational gang activity; child exploitation; human smuggling and trafficking; illegal exports of controlled technology and weapons; money laundering; financial fraud and scams; worksite and employment crimes; cybercrime; intellectual property theft and trade fraud; identity and benefit fraud; human rights violations and war crimes.
In collaboration with its strategic partners in the U.S. and abroad, HSI special agents gather evidence to identify and build criminal cases against TCOs, terrorist networks and facilitators, and other criminal elements that threaten the United States. HSI works with prosecutors to indict and arrest violators, execute criminal search warrants, seize criminally derived money and assets, and take other actions designed to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations operating around the world. These efforts protect U.S. national, border, and economic security, and ensure the safety of the public and our
communities.
HSI’ s regional Attaché office at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok maintains close relationships with law enforcement partners from; the Royal Thai Government, the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and , is regionally responsible for the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
HSI Information Center
Website: https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi
ICE Tip Reporting by Phone:
Report Crimes, Suspicious Activity and Suspected Child Exploitation:
U.S. and Canada: (866) 347-2423
Other Countries Across the Globe: (802) 872-6199
TTY for hearing impaired only: (802) 872-6196
Export Enforcement Control Center (E2C2)
North America: (866) 347-2423
International: (802) 872-6199
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)
The ERO directorate upholds U.S. immigration law at, within, and beyond our borders. ERO’s work is critical to the enforcement of immigration law against those who present a danger to our national security, are a threat to public safety, or who otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration system.
ERO operations target public safety threats, such as convicted criminal undocumented aliens and gang members, as well as individuals who have otherwise violated our nation’s immigration laws, including those who illegally re-entered the country after being removed and immigration fugitives ordered removed by federal immigration judges. ERO deportation officers assigned to INTERPOL also assist in targeting and apprehending foreign fugitives or Fugitive Arrest and Removal (FAR) cases who are wanted for crimes committed abroad and who are now at-large in the U.S.
ERO manages all aspects of the immigration enforcement process, including identification and arrest, domestic transportation, detention, bond management, and supervised release, including alternatives to detention. In addition, ERO removes undocumented aliens ordered removed from the U.S. to more than 150 countries around the world and those ordered removed from the U.S. after violating U.S. immigration laws.
ERO Information Center
Website: https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero
ICE ERO Detention, Removals and Information Line (DRIL)
Live, Trained Operators are Available Monday – Friday (excluding holidays),
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Eastern Time)
1-888-351-4024