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ICE Employment 2025

The number of ICE officers and agents employed after a record recruitment surge in 2025

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Jan 13, 2026
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How does ICE's female hiring compare to previous years?

ICE undertook an unprecedented hiring surge in 2025–2026, adding roughly 12,000 officers and agents in under a year according to DHS and reporting, but public reporting and ICE statements included no ...

Jan 10, 2026

How many ICE agents were employed at the start of 2024 and 2023 compared to 2025?

At the start of 2025 ICE is reported to employ "more than 22,000" officers and agents after a record recruitment surge (DHS/ICE/GovExec reporting) . The provided reporting does not contain a definitiv...