Overview

• ICE has removed its upper age limit, allowing applicants as young as 18 and generating 80,000 submissions in one week.
• New recruits can receive signing bonuses of up to $50,000 along with student loan forgiveness and overtime pay.
• Congress approved funding for 10,000 additional ICE positions to bolster the agency’s detention and deportation capacity.
• Detention activity remains concentrated in eight states, with Texas accounting for 23.2 percent of all ICE arrests.
• Arrest tactics vary by state politics, with 59 percent of arrests in Republican states occurring in prisons and 70 percent in Democratic states carried out through community raids.