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Dominican-American criminal organization
The Trinitarios is a Dominican American criminal organization founded by Dominicans in New York City in 1993. They were described by the US Justice Department in 2009 as lower-level distributors and one of "the smaller Dominican criminal groups and street gangs", although larger and more structured than the "hundreds of small, unaffiliated neighborhood gangs" in the New York - New Jersey HIDTA.
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Federal law enforcement agency
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. Its stated mission is to conduct criminal investigations, enforce immigration laws, preserve national security, and protect public safety. ICE was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the September 11 attacks. It absorbed the prior functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service.
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