Major Initiatives

Predator

Operation Predator is a comprehensive initiative designed to protect young people from alien smugglers, human traffickers, child pornographers and other predatory criminals.

This Operation brings to bear the broadest range of law enforcement authorities in the federal government to target those who exploit young people. Children are one of the most important and vulnerable assets to America's homeland. ICE will do everything in its power to protect them.

Operation Predator draws on the full spectrum of intelligence, investigative, cyber and detention and removal functions of ICE to target those who exploit children. In a way unachievable before the creation of Homeland Security, ICE is coordinating once - fragmented resources into a united campaign again child predators.

Under Operation Predator, ICE is taking several new steps to identify, investigate and remove child predators from America’s streets.

Identification:

• ICE has created a single web portal to access all publicly available Megan’s Law databases.
• ICE is creating a National Child Victim Identification System.
• ICE has forged a new alliance with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
• ICE has created a new, toll-free reporting number (1-866-DHS-2ICE).

Investigation:

• ICE is harnessing new intelligence capabilities to target sexual predators.
• ICE is prioritizing investigations involving child exploitation.
• ICE has formed a new, multi-agency unit at its CyberSmuggling Center.

Removal:

• ICE is targeting for removal fugitive criminal aliens with sex offense histories.
• ICE is identifying alien sex offender inmates before release from prison.
• ICE is partnering with foreign governments.

Results:

• More than 85% of arrests are of foreign national sex offenders.
• Approximately 40% of these are lawful permanent residents.
• Approximately 40% of these are illegal aliens.
• Nationwide, approximately 42% of those foreign nationals arrested have been deported to date.
• Represent predators from more than 100 nations.

REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY TO: 1-866-DHS-2ICE