ICE Launches Major Recruitment Drive Offering $50K Signing Bonuses and Student Loan Forgiveness

ICE is launching a major recruitment campaign to hire officers, lawyers and investigators by offering $50,000 signing bonuses and student loan forgiveness. ICE is flush with funds after President Trump’s tax and spending bill granted the agency $76.5 billion, $30 billion of which would be used for hiring thousands of staffers to meet the Trump administration’s goal of 1 million deportations annually. The Trump administration has authorized the deployment of the National Guard to immigration detention centers in 20 states in the coming weeks, according to a private memo to field offices obtained by The New York Times. The unprecedented deployment will see Guard members assist in paperwork to process the mass detention of immigrants and asylum seekers.