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ICE Recruitment Drive 2025-26

ICE recruitment drive targeting local police officers and offering $50,000 signing bonuses

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Jan 18, 2026
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Is there public hiring data showing how many former local police officers have joined ICE in the past year?

Public reporting shows ICE ran an unprecedented hiring surge in 2025–26, claiming tens of thousands of new applicants and roughly 10,000–12,000 or more hires, and DHS/ICE officials and recruitment mat...

Jan 22, 2026
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How many ICE recruits actually received the full $50,000 signing bonus and on what schedule?

No publicly available reporting in the provided documents gives a definitive number of recruits who actually received the full from ; official and news sources uniformly describe the sum as a maximum ...