Over time, you get to know the people that you meet with. It's helped, in some cases, reduce the level of anxiety and fear in the community so that people will talk to us.
Alien smuggling organizations are driven by greed with little regard to the health, well-being, dignity or motivation of their human cargo. Attacking and dismantling these criminal groups is critical to securing our borders and ensuring compliance with our immigration and customs laws.
Smuggling organizations are opportunistic and for the right price could knowingly or even unknowingly use their smuggling techniques, routes and methods to smuggle dangerous criminals, weapons, drugs, contraband or worse into this country.
ICE enforced 400 to 500 different laws from drug smuggling to human trafficking. We could have stopped doing everything else but document fraud and benefit fraud, and we'd still be busy.
