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The People Joining ICE

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

ICE needs more agents to meet Trump’s promised deportation numbers. But is loosening standards and shortening training time to get more agents on the street a good idea, when ICE’s work is becoming more controversial, confrontational, and dangerous? 

Guest: Robert Klemko, Washington Post reporter covering policing and criminal justice reform.

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front.

0:04.7

Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.

0:09.2

The night will be wild than untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.

0:15.1

By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:21.3

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0:23.5

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0:26.4

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0:32.7

What does it mean to be an immigration and customs enforcement officer right now?

0:42.3

I've been thinking a lot about this question, mostly because there seems to be so much evidence that working for ICE is an increasingly violent gig.

0:53.3

Just look at how they're operating in a single city, Chicago.

0:59.0

Breaking news from Fox 32. I'm Dane Placco. It has been another chaotic day around Chicago.

1:04.5

And it all started with federal officers. For the last month, ICE has been surging personnel to the

1:09.7

Chicago land region as part of Operation

1:12.1

Midway Blitz.

1:13.7

There's no end date for what's happening here.

1:16.1

But this operation does have a growing list of collateral damage.

1:19.6

This morning, the Department of Homeland Security says an immigration officer shot and killed a man that they were trying to detain.

1:27.3

I want to show you the scene

1:28.1

right here behind me. Federal agents have shot at least two people, killing one. They've fired a

1:33.3

chemical weapon at a TV reporter. They've handcuffed a local politician at a hospital.

1:38.3

Video from the Citizen app shows Alderwoman Fuentes asking for that warrant saying that the man had constitutional

1:44.8

rights. She says she was put in handcuffs and later released when she challenged ice state.

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