Secure Communities: Leadership and Contact Information

Credentials for Gregory J. Archambeault, Assistant Director for Secure Communities and Enforcement

Gregory J. Archambeault

Assistant Director for Secure Communities and Enforcement

Gregory J. Archambeault is the assistant director (AD) for the Secure Communities and Enforcement Division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in Washington, DC. He is responsible for several major ICE initiatives, including the National Fugitive Operations Program, Criminal Alien Program, the 287(g) Program and the Secure Communities Program.

Mr. Archambeault has more than 23 years of law enforcement experience. In 1987, he began his law enforcement career in San Diego, first working as a co-op student with the former U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS); and in 1988, becoming a special agent. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Archambeault served in the INS attaché offices in Athens, Greece, and New Delhi, India, where he served as a liaison to law enforcement agencies and conducted training. He also managed immigration related enforcement activities in cooperation with foreign government officials.

Prior to joining the headquarters (HQ) ICE Office of Detention & Removal Operations (DRO), Mr. Archambeault was a member of the ICE Office of Investigations (OI), where he served as a senior special agent, supervisory special agent and as resident agent in charge. During his time at OI he was responsible for the management oversight of many complex criminal investigations related to violations of immigration and customs laws. Investigations ranged from alien smuggling and worksite enforcement to child exploitation and arms and strategy technology cases.

Mr. Archambeault joined HQ ICE DRO (currently, the Office Enforcement and Removal Operations) as the unit chief for the National Fugitive Operations Program in 2008. He was then appointed to the Senior Executive Service as the deputy assistant director for the Criminal Alien Division, where he was responsible for strategic planning, policy development and the deployment of resources to effectively identify, arrest and remove criminal aliens found at-large in the United States and incarcerated in federal, state and local jails and prisons.

Mr. Archambeault received a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration from San Diego State University.

How to Contact Secure Communities

To contact the Secure Communities program office, please call (202) 732-3900. For media inquiries about Secure Communities, contact ICE's Office of Public Affairs at (202) 732-4242.

To report allegations of racial profiling, due process violations, or other possible violations of civil rights or civil liberties related to Secure Communities, all complaints should be filed with the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties complaint intake website.