Q&A – Reporting Illegal Immigrants to Authorities - Driven By Braman Motorcars
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Today’s Entry: Submitted via Talkback asking if there’s a way to report illegal immigrant activities.
Bottom Line: The answer is yes. I can provide you with contact information to report illegal aliens who’re working under the table and taking advantage of federal government programs. As I noted once again last week, based on data from the Center for Immigration Studies, if someone is in this country illegally – the odds are that they have also found a way to take advantage of government programs as well – with 63 percent of households headed by a non-citizen using at least one welfare program. While that may have been tolerated and even encouraged under the Biden administration, that’s quite clearly not the case in the second Trump administration.
Floridians are familiar with ICE’s recently completed Operation Tidal Wave – which netted a record 1,120 illegal immigrants in under a week within our state. The trend line has shown that ICE has been picking up the pace with daily detentions averaging 75 more per day now compared to a month ago. What’s also notable is the depth of the detentions as well. It’s known that the Trump administration has targeted criminal illegal immigrants for deportation in the early months of this administration. That has increasingly expanded to target those with deportation orders that weren’t carried out under the Biden administration and/or those issued “notices to appear” during the asylum-seeking process who never followed through with court proceedings once in the interior. Also, ICE has been apprehending any illegal immigrants present with those who’re they’re targeting during raids. This is showing up in the detention data.
- To date 46.4% of illegal immigrants detained by ICE under the Trump administration don’t have criminal records
This takes me to addressing today’s Q&A...
There are multiple avenues you could pursue in reporting illegal immigrants who’re working under the table and taking advantage of government assistance programs. This includes reaching out to your local law enforcement agency as Florida’s newest immigration law (which is currently being litigated in the courts) compels local law enforcement agencies to work with ICE under its 287(g) program. What’s likely to be the best place to start, however, is to go directly to the source.
ICE has a tip reporting form and process that they’re attentive to. As ICE notes:
<<U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigates more than 400 violations of criminal law, ranging from child exploitation to transnational gangs. Use this form to report suspected criminal activity.
Be as specific and as detailed as possible. You are encouraged to provide any additional identifying details such as places of birth, countries of citizenship, and any numeric identifiers in the below narrative text box. The detailed information you provide will assist investigators as they look into reported violations.
We do not provide status updates for tip information provided. If you provide information, you can be assured that it will be promptly forwarded to the responsible office for follow up action as deemed appropriate.
Do NOT send the same information more than once, and do NOT file a duplicate report by calling the ICE Tip Line.
Although there is absolutely no guarantee that tip information provided will result in monetary payments, ICE has the discretion and statutory authorization to pay for information and/or evidence that is used in support of criminal investigations.
Anonymous tips may be reported on this form and may also be reported to ICE via the toll-free ICE Tip Line, (866) 347-2423>>
So, there’s the tip line and here’s a link to the online form if you’d prefer to fill it out that way. As we’ve seen recently, ICE is particularly active within Florida. If you have good tips for them, there’s good reason to believe they’ll act on it.