"As I’ve written before, ICE’s “Enforcement and Removal Operations” (ERO) deportation officers have long been seen by their peers as the bottom of the federal law enforcement hierarchy — other agencies quip that ICE officers are hired “by the pound, from the pound.” Now the rest of federal law enforcement wants to race ICE to the bottom qualifications-wise.

Moreover, there’s not a lot of confidence in the background checks and vetting that ICE is doing right now. As one current DHS official told NBC News, “There is absolutely concern that some people are slipping through the cracks.’ … The official said many of the issues that have been flagged during training surface only because the recruits admitted they didn’t submit to fingerprinting or drug testing before they arrived. ‘What about the ones who don’t admit it?’ the official said.”

What’s even more worrisome is that other federal law enforcement agencies are now cutting their hiring standards too. . . . [A]gencies like the FBI are actually lowering their long-standing higher hiring and training standards to more closely match ICE. For the first time, FBI Director Kash Patel wants to drop the college degree-requirement and turn its traditionally highly educated, older agent workforce into something more like ICE’s high-school educated street cops; the training they get will drop from 18 weeks to just eight, a stunning cut." ——Garrett Graff

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