ICE recruits brought in to staff the president’s frenzied deportation drive include a man who lasted just three weeks as a police officer, another with two bankruptcies behind him, and a third accused of lying to bring charges against an innocent woman.
The agency hired those officials, along with 12,000 others, using $75 billion approved by Congress last year to fund President Donald Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, according to an Associated Press investigation published Friday.
Scrutiny continues to mount over the vetting process for new recruits, given the frenzied pace at which ICE has expanded its workforce to meet White House demands and amid repeated allegations of excessive force leveled against Homeland Security officials—including the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, both American citizens, in Minnesota in January.
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