The MAGA administration’s headlong charge toward dramatically expanding its immigration enforcement workforce has left it wheezing under the sheer weight of recruits struggling to pass even the most basic fitness tests.

More than a third of prospective Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are failing to muster 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and a mile-and-a-half run in under 14 minutes—standards described by insiders as “the minimum for any officer,” The Atlantic reports, given they’ve already been eased as part of the wider drive to recruit 10,000 new officers by the start of next year.

“It’s pathetic,” one official told the publication, which also cites an email from agency headquarters earlier this month lamenting “a considerable amount of athletically challenged candidates” turning

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