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Ice tracks aliens { May 15 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1052980502294790.xml http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1052980502294790.xml THE STARS-LEDGER New Jersey Fugitive trackers to get Jersey base Feds will hunt criminal aliens ordered deported but still in U.S. Thursday, May 15, 2003 BY BRIAN DONOHUE Star-Ledger Staff New Jersey is one of eight states that will be home to new teams of federal agents formed to track criminal aliens who have been ordered deported but have not left the country, federal officials announced yesterday. The doubling of the number of fugitive operations teams was part of a new effort to remove criminal aliens by the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an offshoot of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service. ICE officials also released a list of the nation's 10 most-wanted criminal aliens, ordered deported for crimes ranging from manslaughter to child molestation. "To those criminal aliens who have eluded apprehension in the past, be forewarned: ICE agents will seek you out, apprehend you and remove you from the United States," said Michael J. Garcia, acting assistant commissioner of the ICE. The federal government has been widely criticized for a dismal record on tracking deportees and criminal aliens. Immigration officials estimate there are about 380,000 people who have been ordered to leave the country, but for whom the immigration agencies have no record of them leaving. About 80,000 of those are people who were ordered removed because they had committed crimes. Many have fallen through the cracks after completing prison sentences. State prison officials are supposed to alert federal immigration authorities when noncitizens are paroled or released. But immigration officials say they have had working relationships with only 60 state prisons nationwide. Many are released into the population without being turned over to immigration officials. "We do not have the ability to do a green card check of every person being paroled every day," said Karen Kraushaar, spokeswoman for the BICE. To address such problems, ICE officials said yesterday they are working to expand the agency Vermont-based Law Enforcement Support Center, which provides immigration data on foreign nationals to local law enforcement agencies. The new fugitive teams will consist of about seven employees with the sole task of tracking criminal aliens and removing them. The plan uses $10 million in funding allocated by Congress to increase the number of fugitive operations teams from eight to 16. Besides New Jersey, the plan will establish new seven-member teams in Maryland, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Texas and Washington.

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