ICE special agents, officers and attorneys enforce provisions of approximately 400 federal statutes. This large and diverse body of laws is reflected in the wide array of offices, programs and projects that make up ICE. People are smuggled and trafficked, while children are sexually exploited at home and abroad.Illegal trade, in a very general sense, predominately involve guns, money and drugs, but ICE’s responsibilities extend much further into all kinds of illegal and counterfeit merchandise coming into the country. For instance, ICE’s responsibilities include the repatriation of cultural treasures out of the country to original owners abroad, and combatting the trade of child pornography and much more.
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- Border Enforcement Security Task Force
- Bulk Cash Smuggling Center
- Child Exploitation
- Cornerstone
- Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
- Customs Cross Designation
- Cyber Crimes Center
- Firearms, Ammunition and Explosives Smuggling Investigations
- HSI Forensic Laboratory
- HSI Tipline
- Human Smuggling
- Law Enforcement Information Sharing Initiative
- Mass-Marketing Fraud
- Money Laundering
- Narcotics Enforcement
- Trade Transparency Unit