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The Secretary’s Award for Excellence 2018 - Operation Matador - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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The 2018 Secretary’s Award for Excellence recognizes outstanding individual achievement or innovation by an employee engaged in work to advance the mission of the Department of Homeland Security. This work may have resulted in superior performance, significant operational improvements or notable innovation in support of Department of Homeland Security missions for initiating Operation Matador to combat the proliferation of extreme violence and criminal activity by a widely known transnational street gang in the New York City metropolitan area. (DHS Photo by Tim D. Godbee/Released)