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The training of United States immigration federal agents is reportedly “deficient, defective and broken” and has resulted in pressure on President Donald Trump‘s nationwide crackdown, a former US immigration official disclosed.
Ryan Schwank quit his job as a law instructor at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) training academy in Glynco, Georgia, this month after claiming he was told to teach new recruits how to break the US Constitution.
In January, two American citizens were shot dead in Minneapolis, bringing back accusations that Trump’s administration militarised immigration operations and that agents are untrained, inexperienced, and acting outside of law enforcement norms.
The administration reduced the deployment after general outrage and large-scale protests followed the officers’ daylight killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Schwank, meanwhile, claimed he had “received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant” at a forum presented by congressional Democrats on Monday.
“Never in my career had I received such a blatantly unlawful order,” Schwank said.
According to him, ICE reduced the hours in its 584-hour training programme by 240, limiting topics such as the US Constitution, lawful arrest, firearms, the use of force, and the boundaries of officers’ power.
“The legally required training programme at the ICE academy is deficient, defective and broken,” he added.
He claimed that because of this, inexperienced and ill-trained armed officers were being dispatched “with minimal supervision” to locations like Minneapolis.
The New York Times reported that Schwank’s statement came as Senate Democrats released dozens of pages of internal ICE documents that imply the Trump administration cut back on training.
But Schwank, who departed ICE on February 13 after over four years of service, said that he felt compelled to reveal flaws in the new training programme.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reportedly gave immigration officers permission to enter some noncitizens’ homes and make arrests without the Fourth Amendment-mandated type of warrant.
The Associated Press obtained a whistleblower report of a confidential Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo that authorised agents “to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.”
