ICE and Border Patrol: What is the difference?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Border Patrol is the law enforcement arm of CBP.
60% : The agency has a budget of $8 billion and a workforce of more than 20,000 people. CBP also formed in 2003 and has a budget of $19 billion.
54% : For searches of private homes, a memo obtained by The Associated Press this week said ICE officers can forcefully enter using only administrative warrants signed by an immigration officer.
53% : In the Minnesota and Portland shootings, the agents were from two distinct agencies with comparable mandates: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes Border Patrol.
53% : ICE formed in 2003 from a merger of U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and was the largest government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in the 1940s.
50% : In May, the IRS' Criminal Investigations division carried out a raid with ICE and Border Patrol at a Kent beverage manufacturing company.
50% : Seventeen people were arrested, an ICE spokesperson said.
50% : Why are Border Patrol agents in places like Portland? A reasonable distance is defined as within 100 miles of a border, which includes the coasts.
49% : Can ICE and CPB conduct searches and make arrests?
47% : What are ICE and CBP? ICE is tasked with investigating immigration and customs violations and enforcing immigration laws in the interior of the U.S., according to the Department of Homeland Security, while CBP is responsible for border security and enforcement at and between ports of entry.
47% : An FBI raid with ICE and other agencies at an Idaho racetrack in October led to more than 100 immigration arrests.
44% : ICE says it doesn't need judicial warrants, which are warrants signed by a judge or magistrate, to make arrests.
43% : Earlier this month, DHS said Border Patrol agents in the city were conducting a "targeted traffic stop" on a car where a passenger was suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
38% : ICE and CBP operate under the DHS, which was created in 2002 following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and combined several departments or agencies into one.
32% : Those distinctions have become murkier as Border Patrol agents assist ICE with raids and the Trump administration deploys CBP agents to places like Minneapolis amid ongoing protests.

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