Noem confirms completion of 10,000 ICE hires to come 'within 10 days'

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday confirmed that the agency would complete the hiring of 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents within the next ten days.

"Our 10,000th ICE officer will be on the job within 10 days," she told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting. "So we have hired 10,000. We've had hundreds of 1000s of applications. We've got within the department."

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act provided funding for the agency to hire 10,000 additional personnel in order to expedite deportations. 

The Trump administration has set the goal of deporting at least 21 million illegal aliens and has thus far reported a decline in the foreign-born population by 2 million since the president took office this year. That figure includes deportations and self-deportations of immigrants from varying legal statuses.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.