ICE's #FridayFive | Jan. 3, 2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent this bulletin at 01/03/2020 03:07 PM EST

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Narcotics | ICE HSI Nogales exposes drug tunnel

The tunnel measured eight feet deep and stretched 82 feet

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and task force officers on the Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) executed a federal search warrant and discovered a tunnel along the U.S. Mexico border, seizing nearly 200 lbs. of methamphetamine, almost two pounds of white heroin, close to three pounds of cocaine, over six and a half pounds of fentanyl. Read more

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SEVP | ICE Acting Deputy Director sets the record straight on fraud investigations involving undercover schools

The investigation provided HSI with a better understanding of how recruiters & others abuse the nonimmigrant student visa system

Over the past few weeks, the University of Farmington (Farmington), an undercover investigation run by Homeland Security Investigations, has been the focus of several media reports. These reports mischaracterized the purpose and rationale for the investigation, and I want to set the record straight. Read the full op-ed and watch the video
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Careers | ICE is hiring mission support specialists

Vacancies open throughout the U.S.

ICE is hiring mission support specialists across the United States. As a mission support specialist you will serve as an advisor to management performing work in support of your assigned office.

Interested? Learn more and apply on USAJOBS. 

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Detainers | ICE lodges detainer against Mexican illegal alien arrested in South Carolina for sexual abuse of a child

Carlos Bartolo-Rios was arrested December 19 by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, of which ICE and the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office are members, after executing a state criminal warrant at Bartolo-Rios’s North Charleston residence for first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Read more
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Enforcement & Removal | ICE arrests and removes Argentinian national on attempted weapons trafficking

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed Sergio Leonardo Ruchtein Dec. 18, to his home country of Argentina where local authorities took him into custody. Ruchtein entered the United States March 20, 2019, through Miami, Florida as a nonimmigrant. He purchased a Pulsar Trail XP 50 LRF Thermal Rifle Scope online and attempted to smuggle the device back to his native Argentina. Read more