Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has received over 200,000 job applications, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an X post on Nov. 7.
“Americans are answering their country’s call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.
The ICE’s “Defend the Homeland” recruitment drive was launched by DHS on July 29. The effort is backed by funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has set aside $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement initiatives.
ICE was allocated $76.5 billion—almost 10 times the agency’s typical annual budget—in funding, out of which $30 billion is set to go towards hiring 10,000 additional staff members, with the agency aiming to deport a million illegal immigrants annually….