Image: ICE recruitment poster, from SPLC.

This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.

News: 2026

January 13.   Austin Campbell: DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting.

January 15.   Peter Aitken & Leonardo Feldman: Ex-Proud Boys Leader Responds to Claims He Joined ICE.

January 21.   Reuters: Fact Check: Former Proud Boys leader Tarrio was never employed by ICE, says DHS spokesperson.

January 24.   CBS News: How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit.

January 27.   Kali Holloway: Whom Is ICE Actually Recruiting? ICE has lowered standards to facilitate a massive hiring spree. Many of the new recruits are plainly unqualified. Are some also white supremacists or domestic terrorists?

January 30.   Ali Breland: Meet the New Proud Boys: The far-right group’s views and tactics are now emulated by federal agents.

News: 2025

June 12.   Konstantin Toropin & Thomas Novelly: Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program.

July 17.   Shirin Ali: A Former ICE Official Is Worried the Agency Is About to Go on a Spree of Hiring Proud Boys.

August 2.   Jessica Washington: Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents.

August 6.   Sean Michael Newhouse: Trump administration cuts age limits for ICE agent recruits.

August 6.   David Dayen: FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE: Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.

August 7.   Ximena Bustillo & Ailsa Chang: ICE is recruiting federal workers, offering bonuses to hire thousands of workers.

August 28.   SPLC: Homeland Security deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit.

September 2.   Sam Levin: ‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers.

October 8.   Carrie Schreck: How the Border Patrol Uses Rodeos to Recruit: At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

October 22.   Julia Ainsley & Didi Martinez: Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting: The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards.

December 31.   Drew Harwell & Joyce Sohyun Lee: ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires.