Trump Is Cleaning House After ICE Hiring Rush Put Unvetted Recruits On The Streets

David Brouillette has a history of alleged physical and verbal abuse against his ex-wives and daughters. When he was a child, he was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, which worsened after he retired from the military, according to the Associated Press.

Despite his concerning past, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hired Brouillette during a massive recruiting surge to support the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Shortly after taking the job, Brouillette allegedly fatally shot a Colombian migrant in Biddeford, Maine, in July. The deadly shooting brought Brouillette’s past behavior to light, raising concerns about the accelerated vetting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adopted at the time for new ICE recruits.

ICE hired 12,000 new officers and agents in the span of roughly four months by offering up to $50,000 in signing bonuses thanks to a flood of cash from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

Now, the feds have started trying to clean up the mess by quietly firing some of the recent recruits after the results of their background checks came back with red flags. Despite the rushed and poor vetting, many of the junior ICE officers were allowed to take to the streets to make arrests, according to several current ICE officers.

The Daily Wire granted the officers anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

When dealing with the now-commonplace combative target or agitator, the officers said they were often left to fend for themselves as the new recruits stood by frozen and unsure of how to conduct themselves.

“There’s been a lot of instances where we get into an altercation with subjects that are resistant, and they just watch like they don’t know what to do, or they just do nothing,” one source said.

“They’re sending people out to do these arrests. They have no field experience, like people fresh out of the academy or they’ve only been in detention since they started with ICE, they have no idea what they’re doing in the field. And it’s scary,” another officer said, adding, “I’m counting on you to have my back, but, you know, I’m seeing all these pre-assault indicators or pre-flight indicators, and you’re just f*cking standing there. It’s insane.”

After months of putting recruits through a speedy 42-day academy, DHS has since extended the training program to last 72 days, an ICE spokesperson confirmed.

During the hiring push, the agency also allowed those with prior law enforcement experience, including those who lacked backgrounds in immigration enforcement, to bypass the in-person ICE academy and participate in an online training program.

The recruits who received the rushed training “will attend follow-on training at the Advanced Field Officer Training Program,” where they will take their skills from the original academy “and apply it to real-life scenarios while on duty,” the ICE spokesperson told The Daily Wire.

“As we have said all along, ICE training does not end when recruits graduate from the academy. ICE officers go through a rigorous on-the-job training and mentorship,” the spokesperson said.

One of the officers predicted that “only 20% to 30%” of recruits would have made it onto the force had they undergone the full academy.

“They realized they f*cked up and now we’re dealing with the consequences,” the officer said, adding: “Now they have to purge the whole agency because they just hired a bunch of f*cking knuckleheads.”

In a recently surfaced whistleblower complaint, a senior ICE official who was tasked with evaluating thousands of agency applicants shared concerns about the speedy process that they said led “improperly vetted” individuals to join the force, leading to “grave national security risks.” The unnamed official said the agency hired some recruits before the completion of their fingerprint, identity, or credit checks, warning that the lax vetting could create an “increased vulnerability to insider threats, infiltration, and foreign influence.”

One of the officers who spoke with The Daily Wire recalled observing their new colleagues taking to the streets before they underwent required drug testing.

“They were getting their phone calls to go through drug tests after they had already freaking entered on duty,” the source said.

Officers said they also observed the “infiltration” by anti-ICE activist groups inside the new recruiting class.

“Some of these people are f*cking garbage, and I know for a fact that a lot of the Antifa guys and these f*cking liberal Democrats, they apply so they can get the intel on how we do things,” the officer said.

When the new officers completed their training, whether online or at the in-person academy, some of them were almost immediately sent out to start making arrests without having any real experience in the field.

One ICE officer, who transferred to the agency from Border Patrol, said they completed the virtual academy “in two hours” and that others were “knocking out” the testing in three days. The officer expressed concerns about the unlimited number of test failures officers were allowed and a self-attested physical fitness assessment.

Others shared that the in-person training did not adequately equip officers with the experience and skills needed to make arrests.

“The crazy part is when you go do these academies, it’s great, but it’s, like, you go to the academy, and they’re, like, ‘all right now, go,'” an officer said.

“There’s a severe lack of training with this big hiring push they had. It’s insane,” another officer said.

In some ICE offices, junior recruits outnumber the more seasoned personnel, sources said. As a result, the new recruits lack “mentorship” from senior officers to show them the ropes.

“The damage is done,” one of the officers said.

“I hate to admit it, it was just very much like get warm bodies and just get them out there,” they added.

The ICE spokesperson said the agency’s “Office of Professional Responsibility diligently applies the proper personnel vetting regulations, including guidelines for national security, and evaluates all available information for every applicant based on these factors.”

Applicants “may receive” what is known as a “Tentative Selection Letter” after initially submitting their application and undergoing an interview, the spokesperson said. They may also “receive an offer of temporary status to begin training pending a full background investigation,” they added.

The spokesperson did not answer questions about whether the agency let new recruits whose background checks weren’t completed make arrests in the field.

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