When a government agency doubles in size within months, the machinery of scrutiny struggles to keep pace with the machinery of ambition. ICE's rapid expansion to more than 12,000 new officers — driven by congressional billions and a mandate to accelerate deportations — has collided with a harder question: how well can any institution truly know the people it arms and sends into the world? A shooting in Maine, involving an officer whose family says carried serious mental health concerns since childhood, has placed that question at the center of a national reckoning about the cost of speed in ma
Maine shooting spotlights concerns over ICE's rapid hiring and vetting practices
A Colombian man was shot by an ICE officer in Maine; the officer had undisclosed serious mental health issues since childhood.