Description: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly used an AI-assisted résumé screening tool during a 2025 hiring surge that misclassified some applicants as having law-enforcement experience. As a result, certain recruits without policing backgrounds were allegedly routed into a shortened training pathway. ICE reportedly identified the error, reviewed résumés manually, and reassigned affected recruits for additional training.
Editor Notes: Timeline notes: Reporting on this incident suggests it occurred sometime in mid-fall 2025. Outlets began reporting on it on 01/14/2026, which is the date this incident ID takes.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown generative AI developers and Unknown AI-assisted résumé screening developers developed an AI system deployed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which harmed ICE recruits without law-enforcement experience and Members of the public subject to ICE enforcement.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown AI-assisted résumé screening technology and Automated applicant classification tool (ICE recruitment)
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1343
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-01-14
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training, accordin…
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