The role of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be the topic of the program at the Sept. 11 meeting of the Lake of the Woods Democratic Club.
Denis Kaufman, a retired federal intelligence analyst, will speak at the meeting in Classroom 2 of the LOW Community Center. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m. after a meet-and-greet session that begins at 1 p.m.
The mission of I.C.E., according to the website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is to “Protect America through criminal investigations and enforcing immigration laws to preserve national security and public safety.”
The agency had more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel as of mid-2025, operating across the United States and in various countries worldwide.
Kaufman, who moved to Orange County in 2021, enlisted in the U.S. Navy after high school in 1969. He retired as a senior chief petty officer in 1990.
In 1990 he joined the Defense Intelligence Agency as an intelligence analyst and served in various assignments from 1990 through 2017, including as the defense intelligence studies chair at the U.S. Army War College. He retired for the second time from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence in December 2017.