The Trump administration is embarking on the largest expansion of federal immigration enforcement in decades, using newly approved funding to more than double U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention capacity—from 41,500 to over 100,000 beds—and recruit thousands of additional personnel. ICE has begun a nationwide hiring campaign that offers up to $50,000 in signing bonuses and as much as $60,000 in student-loan forgiveness, aiming to add roughly 10,000 deportation officers and related staff as part of a 14,000-position build-out. Federal officials say the bolstered workforce is essential to meet President Donald Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million people annually. The incentives have alarmed local law-enforcement leaders, who fear the generous packages will draw deputies away from understaffed sheriffs’ offices. Jonathan Thompson, chief executive of the National Sheriff’s Association, called the recruitment tactics “tone-deaf” and warned they could exacerbate shortages in rural departments. Civil-rights advocates and researchers, including CUNY historian Andrea Vasquez, add that aggressive courthouse and workplace raids are deterring immigrant families from appearing in court, deepening mistrust of the justice system. Reuters immigration correspondent Ted Hesson said the new funding ‘essentially supercharges immigration enforcement,’ intensifying an already contentious national debate.