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The 2025 hiring surge by ICE and its impact on training and vetting processes
Department of Homeland Security and ICE defended a compressed training pipeline during the 2025 hiring surge as a deliberate trade‑off to meet urgent operational mandates and statutory directives, arg...
The 2025 ICE hiring surge added roughly 12,000 officers and agents, growing the agency from about 10,000 to more than 22,000 employees—a roughly 120% increase concentrated over several months in late ...
Since the 2025 hiring surge — which doubled ICE’s workforce with roughly 12,000 new hires deployed nationwide — publicly reported outcomes show a clear rise in high‑profile use‑of‑force episodes and w...