ICE hiring collapses despite 10,000 agent expansion order

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Legislative Capture Executive Power Expansion

Despite Trump’s executive order 5 days after inauguration calling for 10,000 additional ICE officers, hiring collapsed 50% to just 371 deportation officers total in 2017. Congress denied specific funding for hiring expansion, providing only $15.7M for 65 agents instead of requested $186M for 1,000 officers.

Sources & Citations

[1] Donald Trump breaks promise to triple number of ICE enforcement officers · Dec 3, 2019 Tier 1

[2] New Deportation Officer Hires Dropped in Half in Trump's First Year · Feb 28, 2018 Tier 2

[3] Trump Raids Federal Government Ranks to Fix ICE Hiring Disaster · Mar 15, 2018 Tier 2

[4] Trump's Plan To Hire 15,000 Border Patrol And ICE Agents Won't Be Easy · Feb 23, 2017 Tier 1

Tiers Tier 1 court records & gov docs · Tier 2 established outlets · Tier 3 regional & specialty press · Tier 4 opinion or single-source. Methodology →

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The Cascade Ledger. “ICE hiring collapses despite 10,000 agent expansion order.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, January 1, 2017. https://capturecascade.org/event/2017-01-01--ice-hiring-collapse/