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ICE Workforce Expansion

ICE more than doubled its workforce in 2025, expanding to over 22,000 officers and agents from about 10,000 a year earlier.

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Jan 18, 2026
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How many ICE hires since 2025 were former federal or state law enforcement, according to DHS or ICE personnel reports?

Department of Homeland Security and ICE personnel statements indicate that a majority—or in some briefings the “vast majority”—of the surge recruits come from prior law enforcement, but DHS/ICE public...

Jan 26, 2026
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attacks against ice officers

says assaults on surged dramatically after January 2025, reporting increases in assaults, vehicular attacks and death threats compared with 2024 . Independent reporting and data analysts caution that ...

Jan 15, 2026
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How do ICE sign-on bonuses compare to bonuses for other federal law enforcement agencies in 2025?

ICE’s 2025 recruitment campaign prominently featured signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and expanded loan-repayment incentives, an unusually large and highly visible package that accompanied a dramatic ...

Jan 19, 2026

What official ICE or DHS EEO reports list workforce ethnicity and gender for 2025?

The search of available reporting shows no single, public “ICE 2025 EEO report” that itemizes ethnicity and gender for ICE’s expanded 2025 workforce; DHS’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) apparatus...

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