The incentives to join one of America's most controversial workforces are meant to be enticing: up to a $50,000 signing bonus, student loan forgiveness and lucrative overtime hours.

U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement, better known as ICE, has ramped up its recruitment efforts to hire scores of new agents by offering attractive benefits in order to fulfill President Donald Trump's push to arrest and deport the millions of people who the administration says are in the country illegally.

The massive recruitment drive to hire some 10,000 ICE employees, which began in late July, could impact local police departments — including on Long Island and in New York City — if officers were to leave in droves to join the federal immigration enforcement effort.

Police officers on Long Island and

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