Us Government Accountability Office

Secure Communities: Criminal Alien Removals Increased, but Technology Planning Improvements Needed Us Government Accountability Office

ICE has received funding specifically designated for removing criminal aliens. For example, the fiscal year 2008 DHS appropriations act made $200 million of ICE?s salaries and expenses appropriation available through the end of fiscal year 2009 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."