A former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyer and legal instructor has gone public with allegations that the agency is training thousands of new officers to ignore constitutional protections, and that officials who questioned the policy were threatened with dismissal.
Ryan Schwank, an attorney hired by ICE in 2021, resigned from the agency on 13 February 2026 and delivered public testimony before Congress on 23 February, telling a bicameral forum in Washington, D.C., that ICE has slashed its officer training programme by nearly half and issued covert instructions to instruct recruits that they may enter private homes without a judicial warrant.
