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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Former ICE lawyer says training is ‘deficient, defective and broken’ as he blows whistle on failures under Trump

New Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are being given a “deficient, defective and broken” set of training courses as the Trump administration rushes to expand the agency, according to a former ICE official.

"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 who do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order,” Ryan Schwank a former ICE lawyer and training instructor, said Monday during a hearing organized by congressional Democrats. “That should scare everyone.”

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