ICE is carrying out a recruitment mobilization. It is offering signing bonuses up to $50,000, removing age limits, and forgiving student loans for new hires.

The administration is hiring thousands of new agents at a pace comparable to a wartime mobilization. The question of filling ICE’s ranks is not even in doubt — it will happen inevitably. The real question is why America suddenly needs an army of deportation officers at a moment when illegal border crossings have already declined so steeply.

The scale of recruitment is striking.

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