New Immigration and Customs Enforcement cadets are being instructed to violate the constitution, a former lawyer with the agency said before members of Congress this week.
The ICE whistleblower, identified as Ryan Schwank, a former attorney with the agency and someone who was assigned to teach cadets, spoke in front of lawmakers investigating possible DHS misconduct.
Schwank joined ICE in 2021, but resigned Feb. 13 after he was assigned to a training facility in Glynco, Georgia.
"The ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken," Schwank told lawmakers on Feb. 23. "On my first day, I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant."
Schwank went on to reaffirm Homeland Security has cut down training time for new recruits and fully eliminated use of force trainings, while doubling down on agents not needing a warrant to enter someone's home, even as two U.S. citizens were shot and killed in Minneapolis, and a third was killed during a car chase in Savannah, Georgia.
"Never in my career had I ever received such a blatantly unlawful order, nor one conveyed in such a troubling manner," Schwank testified. "Incredibly, I was being shown this memo in secret by my supervisor, who made sure that I understood that disobedience could cost me my job."
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