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ICE's recruitment campaign is pulling officers from local police departments, causing staffing and budgetary pressures, and prompting legislative and policy responses.
ICE publicly says its staffing more than doubled in 2025 after a recruitment surge that added roughly 12,000 officers and agents, swelling the force from about 10,000 to more than 22,000 nationwide . ...
ICE is offering signing bonuses of up to $50,000 to new hires—described in multiple agency and news releases as a recruiting incentive that is paid out over a period of time—yet available reporting do...
Federal hiring for historically required standard federal application steps plus pre-employment vetting—security investigations, drug tests and, for many positions, medical, fitness and oral-board req...
Public reporting supplied for this query does not contain a clear, authoritative tally labeled specifically as “total number of agents hired in 2024”; instead, the evidence centers on a sweeping in la...
Since 2021 there is no evidence of a large net increase in Border Patrol agents; federal reporting shows Border Patrol onboard levels fell through FY2024 and remained below the 22,000 authorized level...
has dismissed "" recruits while they were in training, according to agency data reviewed by , and those dismissals are attributed to failed drug tests, disqualifying criminal histories, academic and p...
are confronting concrete staffing and budgetary pressures as ICE’s recruitment campaign—backed by large bonuses, loan forgiveness and a major —pulls officers toward federal pay and benefits, forcing s...