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Veteran Recruitment

The targeting of veterans and conservative audiences in ICE's recruitment efforts.

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Jan 15, 2026
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How did changes to ICE hiring rules (age caps, direct‑hire authority, signing bonuses) affect applicant demographics?

The combination of removed age caps, accelerated direct-hire authority and big signing bonuses produced a surge of applicants that materially changed ICE’s hiring pool in scale and likely in compositi...

Jan 25, 2026

How has the racial and gender composition of ICE enforcement officers changed during Trump's second term?

’s enforcement ranks ballooned during ’s second term—management says the force more than doubled from 10,000 to roughly 22,000 officers after a fast-moving recruitment campaign and new funding , but t...