Coming soon to many Georgia communities; DHS/ICE Secure Communities program

Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens (Secure Communities) is working with ICE senior leadership and offices, as well as the broader law enforcement community, to better identify criminal aliens, prioritize enforcement actions on those posing the greatest threat to public safety, and transform the entire criminal alien enforcement process. Through improved technology, continual data analysis, and timely information sharing with a broad range of law enforcement agency (LEA) partners, we are helping to protect communities across the country.

From the ICE Website:

Mission
The Secure Communities strategy seeks to improve public safety by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to identify and remove criminal aliens from the United States. We coordinate all ICE planning, operational, technical, and fiscal activities devoted to transforming, modernizing, and optimizing the criminal alien enforcement process.

Background & Timeline
Congress provided the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with funding in FY 2008 to “improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens convicted of a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and who may be deportable, and remove them from the United States once they are judged deportable.”

Strategy to Accelerate and Expand Secure Communities

The Secure Communities strategy entails several steps to responsibly accelerate the development and expansion of the plan. With this approach we focus first on the most dangerous criminal aliens in locations where analysis determines they are most likely to reside. Prioritized deployment will deliver biometric identification to jurisdictions with the highest percentages of criminal aliens in the United States. Specifically we will:

Use modeling techniques to prioritize deployment to locations with the greatest amount of violent crimes committed by foreign-born persons.

Use modeling techniques to determine optimal transportation modes, logistics, and bed space capacity, and procure the right resources necessary to manage increased capacity throughout the immigration system.

Strengthen coordination of ICE efforts to prioritize apprehension and removal of at-large criminal aliens (those not currently in custody
Work with related programs, both within ICE and beyond, to identify additional process improvements.