Federal immigration agents are seen patrolling the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City on July 21, 2025. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. Trump wants to hire 10,000 new ICE agents, the equivalent of roughly 50 percent of the current total manpower of the agency, along with 3,000 new border patrol agents. Experts warn that whenever the priority becomes hiring law enforcement agents quickly, standards immediately collapse and misconduct follows. The collapse in standards happens in two ways when the government rushes to fill law enforcement jobs—and both could dramatically worsen the already troubling mass-deportation campaign.