Serious charges. Hit the link for the full article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former official appeared with congressional Democrats, who also released documents indicating significant reductions in instructional hours for recruits.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who resigned this month from his job instructing new recruits came forward on Monday as a whistle-blower, describing what he said was a \u201cdeficient, defective and broken\u201d training program with a pared-back curriculum as the Trump administration races to expand the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The account by Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer who worked at the federal government\u2019s law enforcement training academy, coincided with the release by Senate Democrats of several dozen pages of internal ICE records that suggest the Trump administration has curtailed the agency\u2019s basic training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program,\u201d Mr. Schwank said at a forum held in Washington by congressional Democrats. \u201cCutting 240 hours of vital classes from a 584-hour program \u2014 classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention and the limits of officers\u2019 authority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauren Bis, a spokeswoman for the department, said in a statement that training hours had not been reduced, adding, \u201cOur officers receive extensive firearm training, are taught de-escalation tactics, and receive Fourth and Fifth Amendment comprehensive instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Schwank was hired as an ICE lawyer in 2021 and became an instructor last year at the federal government\u2019s law enforcement training academy in Georgia, where he taught courses on the law. He resigned on Feb. 13 after he and another publicly unidentified person submitted a confidential whistle-blower complaint on a separate matter that has raised constitutional questions: a new ICE policy allowing deportation officers to enter homes and arrest people without a judicial warrant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution,\u201d he said on Monday at the event with congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serious charges. Hit the link for the full article. The former official appeared with congressional Democrats, who also released documents indicating significant reductions in instructional hours for recruits. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who resigned this month from his job instructing new recruits came forward on Monday as a whistle-blower, describing what he said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consistent-ethic-of-life","category-economics-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}