Under the Trump administration Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now the fastest growing sector of the U.S. workforce. The enlargement of ICE was explicitly called for in the Friedrich von Hayek-dominated Heritage Foundation’s pro-fascist Project 2025.
ICE trumpets its growth. A January 3 U.S. Homeland and Security Department press release, “ICE Announces Historic 120% of Manpower Increase, Thanks to Recruitment Campaign that Brought in 12,000 Officers and Agents,” asserts, “After receiving more than 220,000 applications to join ICE from patriotic Americans, ICE blew past its original hiring target of 10,000 new officers and agents within a year. In fact, we have more than doubled our officers and agents from 10,000 to 22,000 men.”
