The more the American public sees of President Donald Trump’s hardline, anti-immigrant policies in action — the deaths, military-style invasions of neighborhoods, and mass detention and deportations — the more his approval on the issue drops. If this trend sounds familiar, it’s because a similar wave of disapproval played out in Trump’s first term. Despite that backlash…
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A new report suggests that the Trump administration is planning to drastically ramp up recruitment efforts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), expanding the federal agency that has been widely criticized for its violent tactics in carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. According to The New York Times, which cited four sources with knowledge of the…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 5,000 new personnel by December, a significant expansion of the agency as the Trump administration presses ahead with President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, two people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
It remains unclear whether the administration expects all 5,000 hires to be fully trained and deployed by the end of December or whether some will still be moving through the hiring and vetting process, which can include background investigations, polygraphs and other screening.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, a driving force behind the administration’s immigration crackdown, is pushing ICE to meet the hiring target, according to the two sources.
Many of the new hires are expected to join ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, the division responsible for identifying, arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants. The hiring surge will also include support personnel, such as intelligence analysts, the people familiar with the effort said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The ambitious timeline comes as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand the federal immigration enforcement workforce and increase the number of arrests and deportations carried out across the country.
ICE has already undertaken a sweeping recruitment campaign, offering financial incentives and seeking thousands of additional officers and other personnel. Congress provided the Department of Homeland Security with tens of billions of dollars in additional immigration enforcement funding through Trump’s sweeping tax and spending law, giving the administration resources to substantially expand ICE’s staff, detention capacity and operations.
The rapid buildup has also raised questions about whether the agency can recruit, vet and train large numbers of new employees without
Echoing activists across the country, the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the United States government to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Emerging from the #Not1More campaign organized by undocumented activists and groups like Puente and Juntos in 2014, and gaining momentum with concerted organizing by grassroots groups such as Mijente…
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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is calling on Republicans to stop paying lip service to voters’ concerns about the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and to back Democratic legislation to curb President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.
“If you’re genuine, then join our efforts to rein this administration,” he told MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez on Thursday.
In the run-up to the midterms, several Republicans facing competitive elections, including Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz, have appeared to shift their tone on immigration, publicly breaking with the president on what was once one of his most popular issues.
In a post on X, Marshall criticized how immigration operations were playing out in his state.
“When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe,” he wrote.
“It’s taken far too long for them to come around, because we’ve been screaming it for well more than a year,” Padilla said.
The California Democrat urged his fellow lawmakers to do more than alter their rhetoric.
“If they’re genuine about this change in position, don’t just issue a statement or post on social media,” he said. “Join our legislation.”
Padilla pointed to several Democratic-led measures that Republicans could support, including legislation to require ICE agents to identify themselves during enforcement operations, obtain judicial warrants for detentions and use body cameras.
“Join our legislation that requires ICE agents to identify themselves and not come out of unmarked cars, covered up with masks and no identifying elements of their uniform,” he said. “Join our legislation
On Tuesday, family members and witnesses of five people fatally shot by federal immigration agents testified at a public forum organized by congressional Democrats, calling for accountability for the killings. Family members of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Renee Good, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, and Ruben Ray Martinez – all killed by ICE agents since 2025 – gave statements, as did a witness in…
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