Topic > Immigration and Customs Enforcement - 575

ICEImmigration and Customs Enforcement, often referred to as ICE, is an elite Homeland Security branch agency formed in 2003 in response to the September 11 attacks. ICE has two main components, Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations. It is also the second largest law enforcement organization in the United States, second only to the FBI. ICE was created by merging the investigative and internal enforcement elements of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. ICE has over twenty thousand employees in offices throughout the United States and in forty-seven foreign countries, approximately seven thousand of these employees are special agents. ICE has only one field office in New Jersey, located in Newark, but has nearby offices in Philadelphia and New York City. ICE has six detention facilities in New Jersey. Some of them are: Bergen County Jail, Monmouth County Correctional Facility, and Essex County Correctional Facility. ICE currently does not have a director, but the assistant directors are Daniel Ragsdale and Chie...