Overview

• Congress approved roughly $75–$76 billion in multi‑year funding, with DHS planning to hire about 10,000 officers, add 80,000 detention beds, and expand transport budgets including $45 billion for detention and $14 billion for removals.
• Deportations climbed to nearly 1,500 per day in early August, with DHS citing 332,000 total removals so far when including border expulsions, and ICE increasing charter flights and resuming limited use of military planes.
• Arrests surged in late spring with a sharp rise in detentions of people without criminal convictions after a directive to broaden targeting, prompting protests, a federal court’s temporary order in Los Angeles, and continued legal challenges.
• Two current and nine former officials describe widespread burnout tied to arrest quotas near 3,000 per day, long hours, leadership churn, and the reassignment of specialist investigators to routine enforcement.
• To accelerate onboarding and harden field operations, ICE shortened parts of academy training, cut Spanish requirements by five weeks, issued helmets and gas masks, expanded special-response deployments, and faced reports of wrong‑address raids linked to AI‑driven leads.