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A fatal shooting in Maine has drawn U.S. official attention to the hiring and vetting standards of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The review places personnel screening at the federal agency under formal examination, a development that carries weight given ICE's central role in carrying out domestic enforcement operations across the country.
officials are scrutinizing how ICE hires and vets its agents. The agency, formally named Immigration and Customs Enforcement, functions as the primary federal body for interior enforcement.
Its workforce decisions reach broadly across that apparatus. The specifics of what the Maine shooting revealed about existing procedures have not been publicly detailed.
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