In the first nine months of the second Trump administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation massively increased the number of agents working on immigration-related matters at the bureau, with roughly a quarter of the bureau working on such matters by September.
Records obtained by The Intercept revealed that there had been just 279 FBI personnel working on "immigration-related matters" before Trump returned to office. By September, that number was over 6,500. Overall, between his inauguration and September 7, 9,161 individuals at the FBI worked on such matters. This is around one quarter of the bureau’s 38,000 employees.
Just six days after his inauguration, the number of FBI employees working on immigration had jumped by over 1,000, to 1,390 employees. By the first week of February, that number hit 2,260. The number of employees working on immigration matters peaked at 6,803 in June.
