Overview
- Slate columnist Laura Jedeed reports her ICE applicant portal showed a final offer, an accepted status, and a listed entry-on-duty date of Sept. 30, 2025.
- She says her fitness and medical screenings appeared as completed or initiated on inconsistent dates, indicating potential vetting and tracking failures.
- Jedeed claims she cleared background screening despite easily found public writings and posts critical of ICE, which she argues should have raised red flags.
- An ICE recruiter, quoted by Jedeed, framed the goal as putting "as many guns and badges out in the field as possible," signaling a push toward street deployment.
- The account arrives as ICE rapidly grows through incentives and compressed training, with DHS’s inspector general reviewing hiring and training practices.