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ICE Recruits

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Nick Anderson
Oct 28, 2025
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If you were wondering what happens when you pour $30 billion into a federal agency and call it “law and order,” here’s your answer: the Trump administration’s ICE expansion is blowing through cash, lowering standards, and still can’t staff up—while doubling down on the kind of indiscriminate raids that would make a dystopian screenwriter blush.

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