You can be as young as 18, older than 40 if you pass the physical fitness test, and you’ll get a signing bonus of $50,000 to join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which has revised its hiring standards to boost deportations.
The ICE budget rose to $75 billion over four years after President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4. Those funds came from the $170 billion allocated to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration and border enforcement.
ICE is using some of that money to hire 10,000 recruits, for a total staff of about 30,000. The move comes as the administration seeks to fulfill a goal to deport 1 million immigrants every year.
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The federal spending plan will help make ICE the single-largest law enforcement agency in the country, larger than the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other agencies combined, USA TODAY reported.
