The immigration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English) is an agency of the United States National Security Department that is responsible for identifying activities criminals and eliminate the Threats for border, economic, and infrastructure security of the North American country.
Given this situation, raids of ICE cause a lot of concern within the migrant community in the United States, taking into consideration that the immigration agency uses various strategies to be able to identify undocumented people, later and subsequently Capture them and deport them to their country of origin.
According to most lawyers of migrationknowing how ICE agents operate can help migrants To be informed enough to know how to prepare for possible interventions, considering that the authorities have intensified operations in 2025.
From the return of the Republican President Donald Trump To the White House, migration officials have implemented new Technologies advanced and have started collaborate with other US federal agencies to be able to detect all people who are currently in a situation irregular.
ICE measures and strategies
Operations in workplaces
ICE agents constantly do Inspections in companies that are in the United States with the aim of verifying the immigration status of their workers, this through various interviews and review the personal documents of foreign persons who are in that workplace.
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Advanced databases and technology
The immigration agency has a database that helps them locate people in a situation irregulartaking into account that many undocumented migrants have driving licenses, legal history or other types of registration in the United States, which facilitate their location.
Collaboration with local authorities
In most states, except for those still considered “sanctuary“, The immigration and customs control service has the possibility of working with the police to identify and detain migrants who are in judicial processes or in custodyto later transfer them to a migratory center.
Lias in Public Transportation
After the latest provisions of the US president, Donald Trump, ICE agents can do migratory operations at the stations of Busesin the trains and in the residential areas where they suspect that there is a large community of undocumented migrants; as in hospitals and Churches.