ICE Hiring Surge: 141,000 Apply, 18,000 Tentative Offers — National Guard Deployed to Support Operations

ICE’s summer recruitment push produced roughly 141,000 applications and about 18,000 tentative job offers, aided by incentives (up to $50,000 sign-on bonuses, loan forgiveness, enhanced retirement). The administration removed the age cap and is encouraging retired officers as funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill aims to add agents. Large enforcement operations and new detention capacity are underway. Arkansas deployed 40 National Guard members to provide administrative/logistical support to ICE, reflecting multi-state cooperative mobilization.