US Customs went on a blitzkrieg of justice today, and their target was mod-chip sellers. 

Across 16 states, US storm troopers raided 30 homes and businesses, busting sellers of mod-chips. These arrests today follow a 12 month investigation launched by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose goal was to ferret out and hunt down these horrendous and nefarious mod chips, which assist in console piracy, and mitigate profit margins. 

"Illict devices like the ones targeted today are created with one purpose in mind: subverting copyright protections," said the assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "These crimes cost legitimate businesses billions of dollars annually and facilitate multiple other layers of criminality, such as smuggling, software piracy and money laundering," she went on to say. 

To protect us the from the terrors of mod-chipery, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has worked with Nintendo to sieze over 61,000 mod-chips since April, 2007.   

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office was setup in 2003, and is a component of the Department of Homeland Security.