Expert: ICE/DHS officials, anonymous law enforcement sources cited by NBC News The AI tool ICE used to fast-track applicants with law enforcement experience was flagging anyone whose résumé contained the word 'officer' — including compliance officers and people who merely said they aspired to be ICE officers. According to two law enforcement officials who spoke to NBC News, the majority of new applicants were flagged for the accelerated LEO program even though many had no experience in any local police or federal law enforcement force, routing some recruits into the four-week online course instead of the eight-week in-person academy training they needed. ICE identified the mistake in mid-fall, more than a month into the hiring surge, and immediately began manually reviewing résumés of new hires. A DHS spokesperson called it a 'technological snag' that was 'quickly rectified,' saying it affected about 200 hires who then reported to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for full training, and that no candidate was placed on enforcement duties without 'appropriate training and credentials.' The error shows what happens when a consequential personnel decision is delegated to an AI that matches keywords without understanding context: it confidently labeled thousands of applicants as experienced officers, and some untrained recruits reached the field before the mistake was caught. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-error-meant-recruits-sent-field-offices-proper-training-sources-sa-rcna254054