Overview
- Acting director Todd Lyons says ICE aims to add about 10,000 deportation officers this year, reporting 121,000 applications and offering hiring bonuses up to $50,000.
- Training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia has been streamlined, with reduced Spanish requirements cutting the course by five weeks and plans to double instructor ranks.
- Following a rise to 121 assaults on officers from January 21 to August 5 versus 11 a year earlier, ICE is standardizing gas masks and helmets for new agents and sending dedicated security teams on arrests.
- Roughly 450 Special Response Team–trained officers are deployed in cities including Los Angeles, Portland and Washington, with the agency seeking more units and additional armored vehicles.
- ICE is expanding detention capacity and local collaboration, citing more than 119 active 287(g) agreements and a deal to add 500 beds in Glades County, Florida.