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Current reporting indicates the typical time between hiring and completion of ’s core academy training has been compressed from roughly five months under earlier standards to about (with 47 days frequ...
The reported additional officers and agents in under a year—an increase ICE describes as doubling the workforce from roughly 10,000 to about 22,000, a 120% jump . DHS has not published a new numeric h...
The GAO has been asked by House Democrats to review how ICE changed hiring criteria during its unprecedented 2025 surge and how those changes affected training and on-the-job performance, but as of cu...
The DHS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is the ICE unit charged with investigating serious employee misconduct, including allegations related to extremist ties, but public reporting does n...
ICE’s official firearms and use-of-force policy in 2025 is governed by its directive 19009.3 and the accompanying Firearms and Use of Force Handbook, which set agency-wide rules on when officers may d...
Federal prosecutors say providers in 14 Minnesota-run, state-administered Medicaid programs billed roughly $18 billion since 2018 and have estimated that “half or more” of that sum may have been obtai...
U.S. passports and other proof of citizenship are strong tools to assert you are a U.S. citizen, but they do not create an absolute, immediate shield that prevents ICE detention in all circumstances; ...
Research supplied for this query contains no contemporaneous reporting or documents specifically identifying " killings 2008," and therefore this analysis cannot confirm events from 2008 one way or th...
was the subject of an undercover sting in which he was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash, and federal prosecutors reviewed whether that conduct amounted to bribery or other crimes; prosecutors ultima...
Since 2020 ICE has dramatically shortened basic training for front-line officers — reporting places the span from traditional six months or roughly 16 weeks down to around six weeks or an explicitly c...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (OCRCL) is the internal civil-rights watchdog designed to receive, review, and sometimes investigate complaints about ...