{"id":67409,"date":"2026-02-26T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/ice-warns-of-vetting-delays-amid-rapid-hiring-surge-under-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:55:07","slug":"ice-warns-of-vetting-delays-amid-rapid-hiring-surge-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/ice-warns-of-vetting-delays-amid-rapid-hiring-surge-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE warns of vetting delays amid rapid hiring surge under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal email outlines how to handle misconduct claims as expansion raises concerns about background checks<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email this week, underscoring concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>\u2019s rapid expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The email, sent to supervisors with ICE\u2019s enforcement and removal operations (ERO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/19\/donald-trump-immigration-crackdown\">division<\/a> and seen by Reuters, said the \u201chigh volume of new hires\u201d and stalled background checks could create uncertainty for field offices when allegations arise related to actions before joining the federal agency, and that allegations should be referred to the internal integrity investigations unit (IIU).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/trump-ice-hiring-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal email outlines how to handle misconduct claims as expansion raises concerns about background checks Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email &#8230; <a title=\"ICE warns of vetting delays amid rapid hiring surge under Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/ice-warns-of-vetting-delays-amid-rapid-hiring-surge-under-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE warns of vetting delays amid rapid hiring surge under Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}