President Donald Trump’s plan to quickly add 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers is running into a basic hurdle. More than one-third of new recruits at ICE’s Georgia training academy have failed the agency’s fitness test, according to reporting by The Atlantic.
What ICE says about the problem
An Oct. 5 email from ICE headquarters complained that “a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates” had “misrepresented” their condition and directed field offices to pretest fitness before sending recruits to the academy, The Atlantic reported.
“We all know the self-certification method has failed,” wrote Ralph Ferguson, an ICE operations official, according to the outlet.
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