The Trump administration has denied accusations of negligence in the training of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for months, even amid the horrible killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Now, Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer, has confirmed many of these criticisms and brought critical information to light in his testimony to Congress.
The administration, through its own purposeful negligence, has created an army of poorly trained thugs funded by American tax dollars to terrorize immigrant communities in the U.S.
Schwank accused the Department of Homeland Security of lying about cutting ICE training to the detriment of its officers, including legal training surrounding officers’ use of deadly force. He called ICE’s current training program “deficient, defective and broken.”
This testimony finally confirms what many ICE critics have been screaming out for everyone to realize as the Trump administration has ramped up its anti-immigrant operations.
“For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program, cutting 240 hours of vital classes from a 584 hour program,” Schwank told Congress. “Classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention and the limits of officers’ authority.”
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