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ICE Hiring Practices 2025

The change in ICE's hiring practices, including the removal of age caps and the use of large financial incentives, and its impact on the demographic composition of new hires.

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How did changes to ICE hiring rules (age caps, direct‑hire authority, signing bonuses) affect applicant demographics?

The combination of removed age caps, accelerated direct-hire authority and big signing bonuses produced a surge of applicants that materially changed ICE’s hiring pool in scale and likely in compositi...