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Immigration Enforcement

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Unsupervised ICE: Built for Violence

ICE’s hiring surge did not just add inexperienced agents — it purposefully dismantled standards meant to restrain them. With academy screening collapsed and first-line supervision stretched past professional limits, Trump's ICE has constructed a system that predictably loses control of force.

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Everyone Graduates ICE Killing Academy

Normal law enforcement academies remove more recruits than quit. At ICE, the pattern is inverted—74% quit, only 26% are dismissed. Academy attrition collapsed from 12.2% to 4.2%. Two out of three recruits who would have washed out are now put in the field. Part 2 of 3.

Federal immigration officers chemical spraying protestors.

ICE is Built to Kill

The Trump administration claims 85% of ICE's surge hires are "experienced law enforcement officers." OPM payroll data tells a different story: two-thirds have no discernible law enforcement background.