The passing of Trump’s new law by Congress will drastically change law enforcement in the U.S. by giving a huge amount of money to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This wide-ranging law sets aside around $170 billion for DHS, with nearly $30 billion of that going directly to ICE, an agency already known for its strict deportation policies.
The White House has made its goal clear to hire 10,000 new ICE officers. This would more than double the current number of agents, greatly increasing the agency’s ability to carry out its work. However, reaching this goal will not be easy. According to The Guardian, a 2017 report from the DHS inspector general, written after a similar push to hire 10,000 new officers under a past administration, found that hiring that many people would require interviewing about 500,000 candidates.
