Last month I asked you, the readers of this newsletter, to share your questions about immigration. We plan to answer a selection of them right here with the help of my colleagues across the newsroom.

We’re starting with a question that gets at something several of you want to know about the Trump administration’s effort to hire more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as it seeks to ramp up deportations.

What is the process of recruiting new ICE agents? Where does this take place, and who is signing up?

For the answer, I turned to Nicholas Nehamas, a reporter who covers the ways President Trump is transforming the federal government. Nick recently took a firsthand look at that recruitment process, and below, he’ll explain what he saw. — Jess Bidgood

Roughly 3,000 people showed up late last month at a two-day hiring fair for Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside Dallas, Texas.