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The Trump administration is hoping to use an unprecedented $75 billion infusion of funding into Immigration and Customs Enforcement to roughly double the number of active immigration agents to 10,000 by early next year, but scores of new hires are reportedly failing the agency’s physical fitness requirements, slowing a key part of the recruiting push.

With ICE now offering incentives like loan for

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