WASHINGTON — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who resigned this month from his job instructing new recruits plans to speak out Monday as a whistleblower, describing what he says is a “deficient, defective and broken” training program with a pared-back curriculum as the Trump administration races to expand the agency.

The account by Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer who worked at the federal government’s law enforcement training academy, coincides with Senate Democrats’ releasing several dozen pages of internal ICE records that they say demonstrate how the Trump administration has curtailed the agency’s basic training.

Some of the previously unreported documents indicate that ICE officers are now training for significantly fewer hours than they did before President Donald Trump’s hiring surge. Others suggest that several training classes appear to have been cut from the required syllabus, including one titled “Use of Force Simulation Training” and others on immigration law and ICE’s legal authorities.

Together, the new disclosures underscore concerns about the conduct and preparedness of Homeland Security Department agents, who have shot and killed at least three American citizens over the past year. Trump’s decision to order immigration officers into major American cities has led to a rise in violent encounters with members of the public, leading to fears that poor training for new agents will produce more chaos.

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