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Homeland Security

Expanded Forensics Lab Will Help ICE Keep Pace With Evolving Threats, Director Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

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Expanded Forensics Lab Will Help ICE Keep Pace With Evolving Threats, Director Says

Document examiner at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Forensics Laboratory. Photo: ICE

McLEAN, Va.—A recently completed expansion and upgrade of a forensics laboratory operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will help the agency better support its front line agents and other law enforcers as well as keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats, the ICE official oversees the lab said on Wednesday at the grand re-opening of the facility.There has been a proliferation of technology that makes it easier for criminals and other adversaries that is “readily available at their fingertips that…

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