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Operation Community Shield is an ongoing multi-agency
law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of the government or other social institutions who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by investigating, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms gove ...
initiative targeting violent gang members and their associates involved in the
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and
human trafficking Human trafficking is the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving individuals through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. This exploitation may include forced labor, sexual slavery, or oth ...
industries in the United States. Since its launch by
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(ICE) in February 2005,
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(HSI) and other participating federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have made more than 40,000 gang-related arrests, including 451 gang leaders, representing more than 2,400 different gangs and organizations, and have seized more than 8,000 guns in multiple projects.


National Gang Unit

HSI's National Gang Unit (NGU) is a critical part of ICE's mission to bring the fight to transnational criminal gangs. The NGU identifies and develops intelligence on gang membership, associations, activities and international movements. It also deters, disrupts gang operations by tracing and seizing cash, weapons and other assets derived from illicit activities. NGU leverages its anti-gang initiative called Operation Community Shield to enhance U.S. public safety. The unit develops strategic domestic and foreign law enforcement partnerships and utilizes those partnerships, along with all of its unique legal authorities to target gangs, to suppress violence and prosecute criminal enterprises.


Overview

Operation Community Shield investigators perform the following duties: * Works with federal, state and local law enforcement partners, in the United States and abroad, to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to conducting criminal investigations and other law enforcement operations against gangs. * Identifies violent street gangs and develops intelligence on their membership, associates, criminal activities and international movements. * Deters, disrupts and dismantles gang operations by tracing and seizing cash, weapons and other assets derived from criminal activities. * Seeks prosecution and/or removal of alien gang members from the United States. * Works closely with our attaché offices worldwide and foreign law enforcement counterparts in gathering intelligence, sharing information and conducting coordinated enforcement operations. * HSI special agents routinely investigate these crimes side-by-side with law enforcement partners in pursuit of racketeering influenced and corrupt organization (RICO), violent crime in aid of racketeering (VICAR) and Hobbs Act prosecutions in order to most effectively disrupt and dismantle criminal enterprises.


Projects

Operation Community Shield projects include: * Project Big Freeze: 2010 drug trafficking investigation * Project Southern Tempest: 2010-11 drug trafficking investigation * Project Nefarious: 2012 human trafficking investigation * Project Southbound: 2014 investigation of the Sureños * Project Wildfire: 2015 investigation of various drug and human trafficking organizations * Project Shadowfire: 2016 investigation of various drug and human trafficking organizations


See also

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Mexican Drug War The Mexican drug war is an List of ongoing armed conflicts, ongoing Asymmetric warfare, asymmetric armed conflict between the Federal government of Mexico, Mexican government and various Drug cartel#Mexico, drug trafficking syndicates. When the ...
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Illegal immigration to the United States Illegal immigration, or unauthorized immigration, occurs when foreign nationals, known as aliens, violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully, or by lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration of their ...
* Immigrant surveillance


References

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