Homeland has said the opposite to Congress….
This for a organisation that has had several media exposed incident’s of abuse to people…
Democrats ARE holding up the spending Bill for Homeland looking to rein in the departments ‘freelancing’ discipline, training , screening and actions of it’s people in the streets…
Reports are that the Trump Admin IS in this case continuing to ‘do their own thing’?
This as Homeland looks to hire thousand MORE for its mass deportation campaign going forward ….
A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.
Ryan Schwank, who resigned from his job at an ICE academy in Georgia last week, told congressional Democrats at a hearing that the agency eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants.
“Law enforcement is a deadly serious business. It is not a place for shortcuts,” Schwank said. “Deficient training can and will get people killed. … ICE is lying to Congress and the American people about the steps it is taking to ensure that 12,000 officers can faithfully uphold the Constitution and perform their jobs.”
Ahead of the hearing, Schwank provided a joint panel of House and Senate Democrats copies of internal ICE documents that he said show the extent of the cuts. The documents indicated that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Georgia, shortened its training program from 72 days to 42 days.
Democratic lawmakers said that a side-by-side comparison of a table of contents for the ICE basic training program in July 2025 — before a tranche of new funding from Congress for the agency to hire thousands of officers — and February 2026 appears to show that “a number of courses have been wholly cut from ICE’s training program.”
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, “has knowingly jeopardized the safety of Americans by systematically dismantling the training designed to educate ICE officers on the legal limits of their authority,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Virginia) said.
Schwank’s testimony comes two weeks after acting ICE director Todd M. Lyons testified in front of separate House and Senate committees amid growing public outrage over the aggressive tactics of ICE and other federal immigration officers. Two U.S. citizens were fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis last month….
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Schwank said that among the classes eliminated were 16 hours of firearms training. He also said that a two-hour class on the rights of protesters was shortened into 10 minutes of discussion during a lecture on “the concept of seizure.”
Schwank began working at ICE in 2021 as an assistant chief counsel and, in September, volunteered to serve as an instructor at the training academy in Georgia. He said recruits came from a variety of backgrounds, including some as young as 18 years old and some who did not have college degrees.
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