The recruitment drive comes just weeks after President Trump signed the “One, Big, Beautiful” tax and spending bill into law.
The bill included more than $76bn allocated to ICE – almost 10 times of what it had been receiving previously – and making it the highest funded federal law enforcement agency.
President Trump, Secretary Noem and other administration officials have vowed to ramp up the pace of deportations to one million per year.
Approximately 150,000 people have been deported in the first six months of the Trump administration, according to data obtained by CBS, the BBC’s US news partner.
If that pace – of about 800 a day – continues, ICE will have carried more than 300,000 deportations in Trump’s first year in office, well below the administration’s self-imposed goal.
In an interview with the Associated Press, former ICE chief staff Jason Houser said that while the agency has long needed more staff, he is concerned that standards may fall amid the deportation drive, comparing it to the enlargement of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the early 2000s.
“If they start waiving requirements there like they did for Border Patrol, you’re going to have an exponential increase in officers that are shown the door after three years because there’s some issue,” he said.
It is unclear how many people have so far applied for the newly advertised jobs with ICE.
The BBC has reached out to ICE and DHS for comment.