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BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DMI, a leading IT solutions and business strategy consulting firm, today announced it has won a two-year Task Order to provide Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Support for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) legacy Alien Criminal Response Information Management (ACRIMe) System. The legacy ACRIMe system directly supports the ICE mission as the primary system used by ICE Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC) specialists...

THE LAW OFFICE OF GERALD L. GILLIARD, ESQ. (http://www.EmploymentLegalTeam.com) persuaded the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board that a Newark, N.J. Federal agent's trial probationary position with ICE was similar enough to his previous job with TSA to place his appeal within its jurisdiction. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) October 15, 2012 According to an Order issued on September 14, 2012 by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (the "Board"), Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann...

Extraordinary Efforts by Law Enforcement in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and Ramstein Air Base, Germany Recognized as a Part of National Missing Children's Day ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, law enforcement officials from around the country were honored for their extraordinary efforts to recover missing children and resolve child sexual exploitation cases at the 17th Annual Congressional Breakfast and...

LIRS Troubled by New Report Revealing Deportations Data for First Half of 2011 BALTIMORE, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first half of 2011 deported 46,686 parents who had at least one U.S. citizen child, says an ICE report made public on Monday. "If deportations continued at that rate for the rest of 2011, we can assume that over 100,000 kids who are U.S. citizens saw parents deported," said Stacy Martin, vice president...

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Calls for Alternatives to Detention BALTIMORE, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The new Karnes County Civil Detention Center is a step forward in terms of the treatment of immigrant detainees, but alternatives to detention would be more humane and save taxpayers more money, say representatives of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) who toured the new facility on Tuesday. "We welcome efforts by U.S. Immigration and...

ANOKA, Minn., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) announced that it is being awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS, ICE) for .40 caliber ammunition. This contract features a base of 12 months, includes four option years, and will have a maximum volume of 450 million rounds. ATK was the incumbent and won the contract with its HST bullet, which has...

Southern Poverty Law Center Urges Department of Homeland Security to End Raids Terrorizing North Alabama Communities ICE Agents Interrogated & Threatened Children, Illegally Entered Homes MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged the Department of Homeland Security today to end raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that have terrorized north Alabama families and that undermine federal efforts to...

Federal authorities announced on Monday that they had shut down 150 websites for selling counterfeit merchandise to unsuspecting online shoppers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer reported the results of a joint three-month investigation by ICE and the FBI, saying the probe had resulted in the seizure of counterfeit goods including shoes, purses, sunglasses, sports jerseys and other items. The authorities made...

DULLES, Va., Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a contract to Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) for the development of a modernized investigative case management system to replace the agency's legacy system. The contract calls for Raytheon to deliver a system that will streamline and improve ICE agents' ability to investigate, manage, report and collaborate on law enforcement and national security efforts. "To design and implement the...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allowing members of the public to voluntarily participate in a new program that has been created to try and predict when an individual will commit a crime--or possibly engage in terroristic activities--Declan McCullagh of CNET reported Friday. McCullagh said that an internal document originating from Homeland Security, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals "efforts to 'collect,...