Darian Woods

In the last year, the Department of Homeland Security says 12,000 new agents and officers have joined U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

This was an unprecedented hiring boom that more than doubled ICE's ranks.

This large ramp-up has turned ICE into arguably one of the fastest-growing and most scrutinized workplaces in the country right now.

That's because its performance is highly visible and at times questionable.

The majority of immigrants caught up in this crackdown have no criminal convictions.

Many have legal status and even U.S.

citizens have been taken into custody.

And I'm Darian Woods.

Mark Brown taught at the main campus near Brunswick, Georgia, for five years.

The Georgia facility is so big that it has its own zip code.

There are dorms, classrooms, and shooting ranges.

There's even a mini replica of a city spread out over more than 35 acres.

Mark says he's not seeing those protocols in some of the videos of federal agents that are circulating.

And that makes him wonder about the training that the newly recruited ISOR CBP agents are getting or not getting.

Different officials within the DHS have said that the training for immigration agents has been shortened.

At the same time, the agency says media outlets are spreading lies about ICE training.

Here's what we were able to figure out based on the numbers we got from DHS.

New ICE recruits get 14 weeks of training.

This is fewer weeks than what ICE agents were previously getting.