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The significant increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents during 2025, driven by a nationwide recruitment campaign.
There is no single, authoritative breakdown in the supplied reporting that states exactly how many ICE agents were racial or ethnic minorities in 2025; government pages that publish ICE statistics exi...
ICE’s workforce has expanded rapidly since 2025, with agency statements and reporting describing a roughly 120% manpower increase driven by a concentrated recruitment campaign, placing ICE’s headcount...
The number of ICE officers and agents rose dramatically during 2025: official and ICE statements place the agency’s workforce at roughly 22,000 officers and agents by the end of the year — an increase...
Since 2024 the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has opened multiple reviews and publicly listed ongoing projects that include scrutiny of Immigration and Customs Enf...
Since mid‑2024 ICE has leaned on Office of Personnel Management–approved Direct Hire Authority (DHA) to accelerate recruitment for critical enforcement and technical roles, using DHA to make “several ...