ICE recently undertook a nationwide surge aimed at hiring thousands of agents and summed up by these three lines at ICE.gov slash join.

America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need you to get them out. You do not need an undergraduate degree.

The frenetic pace is raising some questions about how agents are being vetted.

A left-leaning freelance journalist named Laura Jadid said last week that she'd applied for a job at ICE and been accepted, despite having been publicly critical of the agency in her reporting.

Not only did the drug test not seem to be a deal breaker, I appeared to have been offered a final job offer.

The truth is, they're taking anyone with a pulse.

DHS called her allegation a lazy lie on X, and Judid replied with a screen grab that appeared

to show she had reached the final offer stage.

Coming up on today, explained inside the chaos of ICE recruiting.

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This is Today Explained. I'm Noelle King with Drew Harwell. Drew is a tech reporter for the

Washington Post who recently got his hands on an internal ICE document on hiring. Drew, tell me what this document is

and what's in it. Yeah, so this is an internal, confidential document that ICE officers spread to

each other that outlines what they call their surge hiring recruiting strategy. So it lays out

$100 million in recruiting spending that they want to

pour into social media advertising, real-world advertising. They want to reach pro-ice influencers

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