Overview

• Acting Director Todd Lyons said “day one” of classes in Washington, D.C., will not include ICE officer visits to school sites.
• He said future campus entries could occur for welfare checks on unaccompanied children or in exigent situations such as violent incidents.
• To meet a congressionally driven expansion, ICE is offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses and has reduced recruit training to eight weeks from 13.
• Lyons reported 121,000 applications and a goal of about 10,000 hires this year, while describing recent arrests of U.S. citizens as a training issue tied to mistaken identity or alleged assaults on officers.
• Educators cite tangible fallout, including a Stanford finding of a 22% absentee spike in California’s Central Valley and reports of detentions near schools such as outside Los Angeles’ Arleta High School.