ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write' [View all]

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ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write'

Daniel Hampton
January 8, 2026 5:45PM ET

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The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration's $50,000 signing bonus attracted droves of unqualified recruits — high school grads who can "barely read or write," overweight candidates with doctor's notes saying they're unfit, and even applicants with pending criminal charges.

The report exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement took a blowtorch to hiring standards, with one Department of Homeland Security official blasting: "We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English."

Officials sent recruits to a Georgia training center before drug test results came back, later discovering some tested positive.

At the academy, some recruits showed up with tattoos tied to gangs and white supremacists. One bailed for a court date on a gun charge, and another was arrested for exploding at a bus driver. To boot, sex harassment accusations emerged, with a source describing to the Daily Mail predatory behavior during training.

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This isn't the department of baking cookies," one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country. “And we're now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.

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