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The 2025-2026 ICE hiring surge and its impact on training, vetting, and oversight
The rapid hiring surge more than doubled ’s enforcement workforce in 2025, adding roughly 12,000 officers and pushing total ranks above 22,000, and that expansion has strained traditional classroom tr...
Federal oversight of ICE training during the recent rapid hiring surge is multi‑layered in theory—Congressional committees, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Homeland Secur...
The 2025–2026 ICE hiring surge—where the agency more than doubled its force by adding roughly 10,000–12,000 officers and agents—prompted a patchwork of adjustments and intense scrutiny: lawmakers and ...
Between 2020 and 2025 ’s “basic” training for many frontline deportation officers was shortened from roughly five months (about 21 weeks including language training and law-enforcement instruction) to...
Oversight of training and post‑academy conduct sits at the intersection of internal agency review, independent watchdog audits, congressional oversight, and interagency training partners, but the publ...