In order to determine how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau can help increase US security efforts, ICE is waiting to receive initial results of the investigation into train bombs that killed 201 people earlier this month in Madrid, Spain.  Agency officials said ICE would comb through databases for suspicious immigration patterns, protecting federal infrastructure and mobilizing explosive detection units in order to increase security.

According to officials, immigration and law enforcement tactics have improved since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, especially in the areas of border security, sharing database information between agencies and the initial use of a biometric identification verifications system at airports and seaports.

ICE has also requested a budget that would fund 30 new fugitive operations teams, whose only responsibility would be to apprehend and deport alien fugitives.  Officials have predicted that the additional teams would help ICE catch about 25,000 fugitives.