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2025-26 ICE Hiring Surge

The rapid expansion of ICE's workforce and its potential impact on internal accountability mechanisms and misconduct investigations.

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Jan 12, 2026
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How has ICE’s hiring surge since 2025 affected misconduct investigations and Office of Professional Responsibility caseloads?

The 2025–26 ICE hiring surge more than doubled the agency’s workforce to roughly 22,000, putting thousands of newly sworn officers into field operations almost immediately . That expansion has already...