Last year the agency had a BAD year….
Off the hook incidents, some involved serious and deadly actions…..
The new Homeland Head was a former cop….
Cop’s KNOW about other cops who should NOT be cops….
ICE IS now beginning to reach back in reviewing new hires that REALLY should have NO business being Federal Law Enforcement Officers….
Bout time…..
The political push by Trump & Co. to cut corner’s….
A ‘Surge in hiring…Signing Up ANYONE breathing, without checking them out….
THAT HAS had some negative consequences
It’s clean up time…
For one person…
Too late….
Then U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement went on a hiring binge last year to help carry out the Trump administration’s promise of mass deportations. The agency offered $50,000 signing bonuses, similar to what Moore had previously earned in salary in a year. He was hired in the fall as a deportation officer — one of 12,000 recruits offered jobs.
The hiring happened so quickly that many new officers were put on the streets before being adequately vetted, multiple former officials said. An ICE whistleblower urged officials to halt the massive expansion, saying in a memo to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General in August 2025 that the “overwhelmed” agency had hired officers without checking their fingerprints or their identities.
In recent months, the agency has begun quietly firing some of the recruits, according to three former DHS officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters shared with them privately. They said ICE has cited red flags that should have been identified earlier, or poor performance. Concerns about vetting exploded into public view this summer, after relatives and court records described the volatile history of a different recruit alleged to have been involved in the fatal shooting of an immigrant in Maine….
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‘Basic processes weren’t even followed’
ICE launched its hiring push last year after President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill on the Fourth of July. The legislation set aside billions to double ICE’s officer workforce from about 10,000 to 22,000. Officials hosted massive job fairs with World War II-likerecruiting posters, slashed weeks off basic training or waived it entirely, and lifted the age cap of 40 to apply. Homeland Security saidmore than 220,000 applications poured in over a few months.
A former deportation officer who left the agency this summer told The Post that his ICE field office in the southern United States swelled to an unmanageable size from November to January. Hirings surged from one or two people to 60 at a time. There weren’t enough bathrooms or desks.
“People were stacked on top of people and sharing two to three people per cubicle,” said the former officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation….
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On its website, ICE says vetting is mandatory and includes interviews with the applicant and people who know them, criminal and background checks, and fingerprint and credit screenings.
A spokesperson said that the agency “diligently applies” proper vetting regulations and that applicants may be offered a “temporary status” to begin training pending a full background investigation.
But the whistleblower, who oversaw a staff of 100 in ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which manages background investigations for job applicants, said he had never seen the agency hire people so quickly. Human resources personnel made final job offers before preliminary vetting was complete. Applicants were cleared for duty “without fingerprints, identity verification, or credit checks,” he wrote.
The official recommended that the hiring surge stop “until compliance with governing standards is restored.” But hiring continued, and the whistleblower retired in July of this year. He declined an interview.
“They failed to engage in basic vetting requirements which led my client to be alarmed that they were putting agents on the street without knowing anything about their backgrounds,” said Kevin Owen, the attorney representing the whistleblower. “The basic processes weren’t even followed.”…..
ICE officer in Texas shooting was recruit not using a body camera
The officer joined ICE last year during the agency’s hiring spree. DHS is facing mounting scrutiny over how the recruits were vetted and trained.