Fired feds, Trump lovers, and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

Ximena Bustillo

September 26, 2025 / 2:00 am

PROVO, Utah — On a sunny Monday morning, dozens of people trickled into the Utah Valley Convention Center in this town enveloped by mountains south of Salt Lake City. Some wore suits, others high heels, and nearly all carried small binders with resumes, certificates and diplomas.

They were veterans, current law enforcement officials, college graduates and fired federal workers.

They came from California, Texas, Georgia, Arkansas and Utah.

And they want to be deportation officers, or work for other parts of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency leading President Trump's mass deportation policy.

The Trump administration wants to recruit 10,000 people f

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