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Legislative Funding

The role of legislative funding in the ICE hiring surge.

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Jan 27, 2026
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How have recent hiring surges affected on-the-job mentorship and remedial training capacity at ICE?

The rapid hiring surge more than doubled ’s enforcement workforce in 2025, adding roughly 12,000 officers and pushing total ranks above 22,000, and that expansion has strained traditional classroom tr...

Jan 28, 2026

What are the federal hiring and vetting procedures for ICE agents, and how have they changed during the 2025–2026 recruitment surge?

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...