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ICE’s basic training for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers is described in agency releases as either 16 weeks (Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program / BIETP) or 20...
Minimum eligibility for most entry‑level ICE law‑enforcement roles, as described in ICE and reporting on hiring drives, consistently includes U.S. citizenship, a valid driver’s license, eligibility to...
Available sources document multiple episodes from 2017 through 2025 where critics, opposition figures, or partisan opponents called for resignations of Trump aides or officials tied to him, and where ...
Federal employees furloughed during the 2025 shutdown are slated to receive retroactive pay after the funding lapse ended: the enacted spending agreement and agency guidance commit to back pay for bot...
President Trump’s administration proposed and enacted measures in 2025 that cut or redirected specific program funding and pushed large tax cuts, but independent analysts and budget offices say those ...
ICE is a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security whose officers and agents are hired as federal employees through standard civil‑service processes (USAJOBS, merit promotion, pre‑empl...
The Presidential Rank Awards are a competitive, statutorily created program that recognizes a small fraction of career Senior Executive Service and senior professionals for “sustained extraordinary” o...
President Trump’s second-term personnel actions have produced widely different tallies — from official counts of tens of thousands to media estimates exceeding 300,000 — because reporters and analysts...
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 ...
As of early 2026 the public record presents a contested picture: ICE’s basic Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) recruit training is described in multiple contemporary reports as an eight‑week pr...
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...
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...
Congress has long been the primary author of agency creation, abolition and renaming, though Congress has sometimes delegated limited reorganization authority to presidents; modern proposals (like the...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive “headcount” for the entire Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workforce at one moment; reporting gives snapshots of related figures — e.g.,...
A clear, year-by-year list of ICE’s annual budgets from 2009 through 2017 is not provided in the documents supplied; the available reporting supplies only scattered data points and trend summaries rat...
Rep. Jamie Raskin’s January 13, 2026 letter demanded a wide swath of personnel and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security — including personal records, pay and bonus information, ...
Available reporting shows the VA workforce grew substantially after 2019 — by roughly 72,000 to as many as nearly 90,000 employees — and by late 2023/early 2024 exceeded 450,000 employees; recent Trum...
Members of Congress qualify for defined-benefit pensions under CSRS or FERS only after at least five years of service, with benefit formulas based on a member’s “high‑3” salary and years served; the s...
In April 2025 the Trump administration’s most visible actions were concentrated in executive orders, agency memoranda on artificial intelligence, and a deregulatory push that sought to limit notice-an...
DHS announced in August 2025 that it will waive previous age caps for new hires at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), removing prior maximums that had been 37 or 40 for certain positions ...