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The Department of Homeland Security is overhauling its training program for immigration agents, including restoring training that had been shortened amid a rush to put agents on the street.
ICE agents depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Feb. 4, 2026 in Minnesota. | John Moore/Getty Images
The Trump administration is abandoning the accelerated training program it used to quickly deploy the thousands of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hired in recent months, according to two administration officials and another person close to the agency.
In addition to doing away with the streamlined training, the Department of Homeland Security plans to certify and dispatch veteran officers to the field to give those hired under the fast-track program additional instruction, said the two administration officials, who, like others in this report, were granted anonymity to discuss internal plans.
