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Concerns about the speed of the hiring surge and whether vetting or training standards changed to meet targets.
and ’s own recruitment materials make clear that applicants undergo rigorous background checks, drug testing, medical exams and polygraphs, and that criminal history is specifically reviewed during ve...
ICE publicly reported that it had hired 11,751 law enforcement officers, criminal investigators, attorneys and mission support staff as of a Dec. 18, 2025 announcement ; that figure sits alongside oth...
agents this year are being prioritized for placement in several major metropolitan field offices—explicitly , , , and —alongside a heavy recruitment push for the field office that oversees multiple de...