Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness:New ICE Agents

As President Donald Trump plots to halt student loan forgiveness for many government and nonprofit workers, his administration is offering a special type of debt relief to one category of workers: new ICE agents.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday it will offer student loan forgiveness and repayment options to new Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits — along with a $50,000 signing bonus.

The announcement comes as the Trump administration works to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for groups the president considers political enemies. Since 2007, borrowers employed by the government or nonprofit organizations serving a wide range of public interest causes have been eligible for forgiveness through PSLF.

But in July, the Department of Education took a major step in altering the program’s rules to exclude certain employers in accordance with Trump’s executive order “Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” which claims the loan forgiveness “has misdirected tax dollars into activist organizations that not only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values, sometimes through criminal means.” Under the revised rules, nonprofits that help transgender youth access gender-affirming care and attorneys who provide legal assistance to undocumented immigrants, among others, might no longer qualify, according to the press release from the Department of Education.

Final language has yet to be published; before it takes effect, there will be an opportunity for public comment.

On Friday, the Department of Education resumed interest accrual on SAVE Plan loans, meaning nearly 8 million borrowers are now seeing their debt grow.

On top of that, the spending bill creates new limits on federal borrowing for graduate students and parents taking out loans on behalf of their children — meaning families and people attending higher cost educational programs such as medical school will likely have to take out higher interest private loans.

“We’re going to see a wave of defaults happening, and we’re going to see more people who can’t afford their payments,” said Sara Partridge, associate director of higher education at the Center for American Progress.

Partridge said implementing changes that will make life harder for millions of borrowers while championing debt forgiveness for ICE agents is peak hypocrisy. “It is hypocritical to provide additional funding for debt relief for certain categories of workers while seeking to deny it to everyday Americans,” said Partridge.

Government agencies can use their own funding to offer loan assistance as a recruitment and retention strategy via a separate initiative, the Federal Student Loan Repayment program, which allows agencies to repay federal student loans for their employees up to $10,000 a year and $60,000 per employee.

The contrast between how the Trump administration is treating most borrowers and ICE agents is “shocking,” said Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president at EdTrust, an education-focused nonprofit.

“The Department of Education is effectively putting other people’s cancellations on hold, while fast-tracking this other group of folks who haven’t done anything to warrant cancellation,” said Pilar. “To me, it’s outrageous, and it shows where the priority of this administration is.”

The vague language around “substantial illegal purposes” also opens the door for more groups to be cut out of the program. “It also would allow the administration to deny loan forgiveness to people who work at organizations that they say violate state law, and that includes trespassing, which we know historically has been used against protesters,” she said. “So there are ways that this administration is wielding the power of the federal financial aid system to advance its ideological goals.”

Backed by significant new funding through the recently signed One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE is rolling out patriotic recruitment posters and benefits to attract the next generation of law enforcement professionals to find, arrest, and remove criminal illegal aliens.

Recruitment materials will be distributed across major cities nationwide, college campuses, job fairs, and law enforcement networks beginning this week. ICE encourages Americans with a commitment to public safety, national service, and upholding the rule of law to apply today to jumpstart a fulfilling career in federal law enforcement.

Sources:

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/02/student-debt-loan-forgiveness-ice-agents/
Archived Link: https://archive.ph/wkUOQ#selection-549.9-549.74

DHS Launches ‘Defend the Homeland’ Nationwide to Recruit Patriots to Join ICE Law Enforcement and Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/29/dhs-launches-defend-homeland-nationwide-recruit-patriots-join-ice-law-enforcement
Archived Link: https://archive.ph/Owrx8

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