ICE is in the midst of an aggressive recruitment campaign in a scale never seen before.

The agency has reportedly signed on thousands of new agents since President Trump's return to the White House.

And as Liz Landers reports, there are concerns about the agency's recruitment tactics and changes made to hiring and training standards.

Slickly produced social media video changes made to hiring and training standards.

Slickly produced social media videos.

Join ICE and help us catch the worst of the worst.

Televised ads targeting local police.

And a celebrity endorsement.

We need your help to protect our homeland and our families. These are all part of a major multi-million dollar recruitment campaign launched by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, ICE, to enact a key campaign promise of President Trump. On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.

His deportation agenda was supercharged when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July.

It included almost $75 billion extra for ICE, making it the highest funded law enforcement agency in the U.S.

government, outstripping the FBI.

And the agency announced a lofty recruitment goal

of hiring 10,000 new agents by the end of the year, which would more than double the number

of deportation officers from roughly 6,000 to 16,000.

We've never seen an expansion of ICE like this. John Sanweg served as acting ICE director under President Obama and

says the hiring goal may lead to compromises. How realistic this goal is and whether you can maintain

those standards all depends on the time frame. Unfortunately, I think we're saying that the

administration is so eager to get them deployed. They were saying a couple of things. One is a

reduction in those standards. To make its recruitment quota, ICE has removed all age requirements and cut its training

program length in half. The administration is also offering student loan forgiveness and lucrative

overtime packages and signing bonuses of up to $50,000. It's pushing those perks in traditional places like job fairs, as well as almost anywhere

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