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ICE to Hire 5,000 Staff for Deportation Push
Original: ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to recruit roughly 5,000 new employees to expand its deportation operations, according to a New York Times report. The hiring drive would significantly boost the agency's capacity to detain and remove immigrants, and it lands amid intense debate over the administration's hardline immigration enforcement agenda.
Why now: Expanding ICE's workforce signals a major escalation of the deportation campaign, which is a divisive political issue.
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- ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive · The New York Times
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