Tactics And Training
Inside ICE’s Georgia Training Campus for 10,000 New Recruits
FLETC prepares record intake of ICE officers with firearms, driving, and scenario-based training.
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✍️By ZRIntel Editorial Team📍Glynco, GA
GLYNCO, Ga. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Brunswick, Georgia, is ramping up operations to process and train 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits. The expansion is part of the Trump administrations immigration enforcement agenda and reflects one of the largest surges in ICE staffing in agency history. Recruits undergo an eight-week program covering immigration law, firearms training, defensive tactics, and scenario-based exercises. The sprawling 5,400-acre campus resembles a college, with dormitories, gyms, pools, and even mock neighborhoods for active shooter and warrant service drills. Instructors can expand sessions to two or three shifts per day to meet demand. ICE leadership touts the program as streamlined, having removed Spanish language requirements in favor of translation services, and incentivized applicants with bonuses up to $50,000 and student loan repayment. The result: over 121,000 applicants since July 2025, 12 times the needed number. Graduates are trained to de-escalate with words before force, Acting Director Todd Lyons said, though the program still requires firearms qualification across 18 ranges, expending nearly 39 million rounds of ammunition annually.