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The 2025-2026 ICE recruitment campaign resulted in an unprecedented surge in staffing, with ICE and DHS reporting the hire of roughly 11,700-12,000 new officers, agents, investigators, attorneys, and mission-support staff.
Reporting compiled from agency statements, news outlets and watchdog groups shows dramatically expanded its law‑enforcement hires in late 2025 and announced another large recruitment outcome by early ...
The recruitment campaign produced an unprecedented surge in staffing—ICE and reports put new hires in the neighborhood of 11,700–12,000 officers, agents, investigators, attorneys and mission‑support s...
The 2025–2026 ICE recruitment campaign produced a rapid, large-scale expansion — roughly 11,700–12,000 new hires that more than doubled the agency’s enforcement ranks in under a year — by running an a...