A whistleblower from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expected to testify at a congressional forum Monday that the agency is “lying to Congress and the American people” about its training of new recruits.
Ryan Schwank — an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month — was set to testify that the agency’s training program “is now deficient, defective, and broken,” according to information shared with MS NOW.
“Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order,” he will say, according to excerpts from his prepared testimony provided to MS NOW by the office of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
Schwank’s testimony at the forum co-hosted by Blumenthal and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., comes on the heels of mounting public criticism of ICE as its officers have aggressively worked to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. An ICE officer killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis last month, using tactics that law enforcement experts broadly criticized. (Agents from the Border Patrol, a separate agency, killed Alex Pretti, also a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis shortly after.)
Two ICE officers are also under criminal investigation about whether they lied under oath about the shooting of a migrant in Minneapolis last month, as MS NOW...
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