U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Among its operations is the Office of Detention and Removal Operations. DRO:

Promotes public safety and national security by making certain, through the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws that all removable aliens depart the United States. The office makes use of its resources and expertise to transport aliens, to manage them while in custody and waiting for their cases to be processed, and to remove unauthorized aliens from the United States when so ordered.

An Austintown man is one of those the agency is trying to remove from this country:

1990: Virgil and Minerva Gilea immigrate to the U.S. from Romania.

1994: Their children, Chip and Bianca, join them.

1994: Virgil and Minerva buy their home in Boardman.

2004: Chip begins working at Energy Development Inc., Poland.

2006: Chip buys a home in Austintown.

Dec. 27, 2007: Chip is arrested at work by ICE agents.

Source: ICE Web site and Gilea family