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Becoming an ICE agent is a selective federal law‑enforcement career that requires more than a generic application: candidates must meet basic statutory eligibility (including U.S. citizenship, driving...
The available analyses show that ICE arrests and detentions fluctuated significantly across the Trump and Biden administrations, with reporting emphasizing a sharp rise in detentions of people during ...
ICE agents can and have worn vests that look like or literally say “POLICE,” a practice documented by advocacy groups, congressional offices and news reporting and criticized as misleading to immigran...
ICE’s 2025 recruitment push packages include signing bonuses up to $50,000, student-loan repayment offers, enhanced retirement benefits and special law‑enforcement pay such as 25% LEAP for HSI agents ...
The available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative tally of how many ICE agents have been injured; federal releases give counts of assaults and vehicular attacks against ICE officers, an...
Training for ICE law-enforcement hires varies by job stream but typically ranges from roughly 12 to 27 weeks of formal, centralized instruction; HSI special‑agent trainees attend a 12‑week CITP follow...
In 2025 ICE/ERO requires applicants to pass medical and fitness screening and complete Basic Immigration Law Enforcement training; DHS materials and ICE job postings say applicants must complete a pre...
ICE’s public hiring pages in 2025 say a mandatory Pre‑Employment Physical Fitness Test (PFT) screens applicants to ERO/Deportation Officer programs and that failing any single PFT event fails the whol...
ICE’s basic and specialized training is delivered largely at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) and includes programs such as a 12-week Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP) ...
Minimum entry rules for ICE ERO deportation officers: no college degree is required, candidates must pass background checks, drug testing, medical/fitness screens (including a three‑part physical test...
Public data from ICE and independent aggregators shows conflicting but converging patterns: ICE’s official reporting and prior-year trends emphasize arrests of people with convictions, citing figures ...
The Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program (BIETP) is described by U.S. federal training officials as the entry‑level training delivered at the ICE Academy in Glynco, Georgia, and successful c...
The available documents show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a mix of rather than a single, uniform “hazard pay” program for all agents; specifics vary by component (HSI vs. ERO) a...
“Deportation” in public DHS and ICE reporting is not a single, simple tally but a family of overlapping categories — removals (also called deportations), returns/voluntary returns, expulsions/repatria...
FLETC has shifted significant capacity toward ICE surge training to support onboarding of 10,000 ERO deportation officers and 1,000 HSI personnel by Dec. 31, 2025, and has said it will continue broade...
The clearest, directly reported figure across official ICE materials is that , and the agency also reports while ICE removed 271,484 noncitizens in FY2024 . — some emphasize ERO administrative arrests...
ICE’s publicly posted PFT page (Feb 6, 2025) says the ERO/ICE pre‑employment Physical Fitness Test is a timed exam of four events and failing any single event fails the entire test; ICE frames these s...
HSI special agents receive longer, more advanced federal criminal‑investigator training—generally the 12‑week FLETC Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP) plus an HSI Special Agent Training (HS...
A dramatic hiring surge under the Trump administration rapidly reshaped ICE’s enforcement ranks—doubling the agency’s size within months and pulling personnel from other federal law enforcement bodies...
ICE distinguishes between administrative immigration arrests and criminal arrests in its public statistics, but the agency’s reporting categories and public statements blur that line: ICE’s public dat...