Secure Communities: Criminal Alien Removals Increased, but Technology Planning Improvements Needed

ICE has received funding specifically designated for removing criminal aliens. For example, the fiscal year 2008 DHS appropriations act made $200 million of ICE?s salaries and expenses appropriation available through the end of fiscal year 2009 to ?improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens convicted of a crime, sentenced to imprisonment, and who may be deportable, and remove them from the United States, once they are judged deportable."