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The basic academy for many new ICE frontline officers was sharply shortened in 2025 to a roughly six- to eight-week program that ICE and oversight reporting describe as amounting to about 47 days of i...
ICE and U.S. Border Patrol are distinct DHS components with different missions and training pipelines: Border Patrol recruits undergo a long, standardized academy regimen (often at FLETC) while ICE hi...
ICE was created in 2003 as part of the Homeland Security Act’s post‑9/11 reorganization to consolidate investigative and interior enforcement powers formerly scattered across agencies, with an express...
Thomas (Tom) Homan served as ICE’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) beginning in 2013, building and running the agency’s criminal‑alien removal apparatus and e...
The majority of ICE agents locate people to detain and deport through a mix of referrals and frontline encounters: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) processes migrants apprehended at the border...
Between 2017 and 2025, ICE’s training architecture shifted from longer, centralized federal-law-enforcement courses lasting roughly five to six months toward compressed, track-specific pipelines that ...
No authoritative source in the reporting claims ICE agents currently receive exactly 41 days of training; instead, contemporaneous accounts describe multiple, role-specific training tracks that range ...
In 2025 ICE agents serve as the front-line federal force carrying out the administration’s aggressive interior immigration priorities: identifying, arresting, detaining and removing non‑citizens who f...
The question being asked — “Percentage of criminals arrested by ICE” — is ambiguous because sources differ on definitions (criminal arrest vs. administrative arrest of people with past convictions) an...
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is the criminal-investigative arm of DHS focused on transnational crime, while Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is the civil immigration enforcement divi...
Federal court records from a June 17, 2025 Bloomington, Minnesota arrest identify the involved ICE agent as Jonathan Ross and describe that he was caught in a fleeing vehicle, dragged down the street,...
ICE’s process to identify and rescue child victims of human trafficking centers on Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) using a “victim‑centered” framewo...
The core finding is that , while , though formal civil‑service grade qualifications can be satisfied by a mix of education and specialized experience. Recent summaries and agency career pages describe...
Federal immigration enforcement has layers of internal and external oversight intended to guard against improper incentives—inspections and custody management inside ICE, DHS offices that take complai...
Congress authorized a roughly $75 billion multi‑year infusion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with reporting and legislative text consistently showing the bulk split between expanded de...
The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) warned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot reliably monitor the location and immigration court status of many unaccompanied migrant chi...
ICE’s public arrest statistics separate people into three categories — those with U.S. criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges in the United States, and people with no known criminal...
The ICE training picture at FLETC is bifurcated: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) recruits are reported to flow through a compressed roughly eight‑week pipeline, while Homeland Security Invest...
When a Deportation Officer is on EOD (entered-on-duty) status they perform the front-line Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) duties of identifying, locating, arresting, transporting, documenting...
Between 2009 and 2017, ICE relied on a suite of statutory authorities and administratively-run programs to identify, arrest, detain and remove noncitizens—most prominently Enforcement and Removal Oper...