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The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s deployment of more than 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents\u2014the largest such enforcement action in U.S. history\u2014turned fatal on Wednesday when an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shooting was just one of several fatal incidents since ICE ramped up its mass deportation effort last year and raises questions about how officers are trained, especially as DHS has dodged questions about this process while more than doubling its number of agents since 2024. Recruitment efforts have been juiced by massive funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as taxpayers have found themselves funding an unprecedented swelling of immigration enforcement hiring.<\/p>\n
Federal officers have also killed at least three other people, according to The Marshall Project, and have shot at least nine people since September, according to The New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n While ICE has ballooned to more than 22,000 agents\u2014more than double from early 2025\u2014the \u201cwartime recruitment\u201d tactics it has employed could be attracting combat-hungry or inexperienced people to the job, experts warn.<\/p>\n DHS announced last summer its plans to hire 10,000 deportation officers, using what they internally called a \u201cwartime recruitment,\u201d according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n ICE officials planned to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun rights and military support through influencers and geo-targeted advertising campaigns, according to The Post<\/em>. The funding is part of the $1.7 billion allocated for border and interior enforcement, including $75 billion for ICE, to be spent over four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n The department\u2019s strategy dedicated $8 million to influencers, including \u201cformer agents, veterans and pro-ICE creators,\u201d with Gen Z and millennial audiences, according to internal documents reviewed by The Post<\/em>. DHS planned to work with creators across traditional social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X as well as platforms with more conservative users such as Rumble. DHS anticipated that their influencer would bring more than 5,000 applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n In addition to a salary ranging from $49,739 to $89,528 a year, DHS offers up to a $50,000 signing bonus split over three years, up to $60,000 in student loan repayment and forgiveness options, and retirement benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n ICE also uses a marketing strategy called \u201cgeofencing\u201d to send ads to the phone web browsers and social media feeds of anyone located near military bases, NASCAR races, college campuses, or gun and trade shows, according to The Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe recruitment initiative utilized data-driven outreach efforts to recruit qualified patriotic Americans from across the country. As a result, ICE was able to exceed its hiring surge target while maintaining rigorous standards for training and readiness,\u201d the agency wrote in the Jan. 3 statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n ICE did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Sarah Salda\u00f1a, former director of ICE, recently told The Post<\/em> she was concerned that the speed of recruitment and the framing of jobs as a war effort in marketing campaigns increased the risk of attracting people seeking combat experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n The department received over 220,000 applications and hired 12,000 new officers in four months. Despite reaching their personnel goal, DHS is still recruiting more officers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe continue to call on American patriots to serve the homeland because we know that there\u2019s still more work to do \u2014 and we will not stop until every community in this nation is safe,\u201d\u201d said ICE Deputy Director Madison D. Sheahan in a statement.<\/p>\n Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot in her car as ICE agents approached her vehicle and demanded she open the door, according to video filmed by bystanders. An ICE officer shot her at close range and was briefly hospitalized after the vehicle hit him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the officer who killed Macklin Good, saying that the officer \u201cfollowed his training.\u201d President Donald Trump doubled down on Wednesday, calling the video of the shooting \u201chorrible to watch,\u201d but said Macklin Good had \u201cbehaved horribly\u201d and ran the agent over, even though video evidence disputes that claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n All new ICE agents are required to undergo the 8-week Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program, during which they train 6 days a week at a facility in Georgia and learn to find, arrest, and deport people. In the past, ICE officials underwent a five-week Spanish-language training program and 16 weeks of basic training, according to the ICE website.\u00a0<\/p>\n The shooting comes after months of allegations of unprofessionalism and misconduct from advocacy groups. Even after a federal judge ordered ICE officers to wear individual badges, officers were seen without badges, according to the Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>. Some new recruits showed up to training without full vetting, having failed drug tests, physical, or academic standards, and without disclosing criminal backgrounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n A senior DHS official told NBC News on Wednesday that ICE officers are trained to never approach a vehicle from the front and not to shoot at a moving vehicle because it will not stop it from moving towards the officer.<\/p>\n Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) filed articles of impeachment against Noem on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSecretary Noem wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area, and now, her rogue ICE agents have unleashed that same destruction in Minneapolis, fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good,\u201d Kelly wrote in a statement announcing the move. \u201c It\u2019s one thing to be incompetent and dangerous, but it\u2019s impeachable to break the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Arrow #Button #Icon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Homeland Sec… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[3816,3817,3695,7913,7746,3818,2049,6472,2159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recruitment tactics led to over 200,000 applications<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Officer training questioned<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n