2 ICE Shootings Expose Risks in Mass Deportation Push as Agency Adds Recruits With Less Training
Updated
Updated · The Dispatch · Jul 23
2 ICE Shootings Expose Risks in Mass Deportation Push as Agency Adds Recruits With Less Training
3 articles · Updated · The Dispatch · Jul 23
Summary
Two recent ICE-linked shootings have thrust immigration enforcement back into the spotlight, undercutting DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s effort to keep deportation operations out of the headlines.
The incidents spotlight a dangerous mix of rapid hiring, less training and the operational strain of the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Texas and Maine were the sites of the fatal shootings, and experts have questioned whether ICE’s accelerated recruitment drive is leading the agency to cut corners in vetting officers.
In Maine, specialists said an officer’s domestic-abuse and mental-health history should have been caught during hiring, widening scrutiny from the shootings themselves to ICE’s screening standards.