September 15, 2026 · Personnel, Competence & Administrative Failure

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ICE Quietly Fires Recruits It Hired Without Finishing Background Checks

ICE has begun quietly firing some of the roughly 12,000 deportation officers it hired during a 2025 recruitment surge, three former DHS officials told The Washington Post in reporting published September 15, 2026. The...

September 3, 2026 · Personnel, Competence & Administrative Failure

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ICE Whistleblower Says Officers Were Hired Before Fingerprints and Background Checks Were Finished

A newly released whistleblower complaint shows that a unit chief in ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility warned the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general in an August 2025 memo that the agency was...