Agencies within the federal government have mobilized approximately 33,000 of their workforce to offer aid to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

In a significant move, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has mobilised over 9,000 partners at local and state levels to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent weeks. This cooperation includes collaboration with local authorities and federal agencies to target serious criminals released by local jurisdictions despite ICE detention requests.

The assistance from state and local partners is not the only reinforcement ICE has received. The ATF, State Department, and DEA have each sent nearly 30%, 300, and nearly 40% of their employees to ICE, respectively. ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has also deployed over 12,000 employees to ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has significantly increased its involvement, with around more than 1,700 employees now assisting ICE. This marks a significant increase from June when they had 250 agents detailed. Customs and Border Protection has detailed over 5,000 employees towards the effort.

USCIS has sent over 4,000 employees, with about one-quarter of the refugee office detailed to ICE as of June. USMS has sent around 20% of its employees to ICE. ERO itself has around 6,000 officers on staff.

The figures shown reflect the deployments to ICE's enforcement office between Aug. 5 and Aug. 28. It's worth noting that some employees temporarily assigned to ICE are serving for limited periods, such as 60 days or six months.

The Justice Department has also lent a hand, sending employees from the Bureau of Prisons, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, U.S. Marshal Service, and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ICE.

In addition to these deployments, the administration is rescheduling training for most other federal law enforcement to prioritise ICE's massive onboarding effort. Trump recently signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, providing funding for ICE to hire 10,000 new employees and Customs and Border Protection to hire 8,500 new staff.

The Cato Institute found that nearly 33,000 employees from federal agencies are assisting ICE. Notably, IRS agents have been authorised to make arrests for civil violations of immigration law. About 20,000 of these employees are from outside ICE.

USCIS employees have been largely working on administrative matters like verifying an immigrant's status or correcting information for ICE. This surge in support from various federal agencies is aimed at strengthening ICE's efforts in enforcing immigration laws and maintaining border security.