The federal government stopped reporting jobs data since the shutdown started, but a private firm says that there were 153,000 job cuts in October. So far this year they say there have 1.1 million cut jobs, up from 761,000 in all of 2024 and the most since 2020. Against that backdrop, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is trying to hire 10,000 new agents. They are clearly having a problem finding qualified applicants, as Homeland Security Secretary told Fox News they have now received more than 200,000 applications. And they are still promoting joining.
Fox News ignored that they are still are looking for more applicants despite having 20 times more applications than needed agents. Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez from NBC News covered this and reported that people who entering its training program were not being properly vetted and had disqualifying issues:
ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said.
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