Overview
- An automated résumé tool keyed to the word “officer” routed many applicants without law enforcement backgrounds into a four-week online LEO track instead of the eight-week in-person FLETC course.
- The error was identified in mid-fall during the recruitment surge, leading ICE to begin manual reviews and recall misclassified hires to FLETC for additional training.
- Two law enforcement officials told NBC News they do not know how many recruits were improperly trained or how many may have been sent out to make arrests.
- ICE’s hiring drive offered $50,000 signing bonuses toward a target of 10,000 officers by the end of 2025, a goal met on paper even as remedial training reduced the number of street-ready personnel.
- DHS reports more than 2,000 ICE officers were deployed to Minneapolis with over 2,400 apprehensions since Nov. 29, developments that coincided with local scrutiny and a Minnesota lawsuit.