About 4 in 10 ICE applicants have military or law enforcement experience, ICE official says, pushing back on criticism the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.

ICE has new money to grow its ranks. In July, Congress approved nearly $30 billion in funding to bolster its enforcement and removal efforts, including hiring thousands of new agents.

The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to ...