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He also described major reductions in the training program.

Schwank submitted several dozen pages of internal ICE documents that he said shows the extent of the cuts he's describing, records that suggest that the Trump administration has significantly reduced the agency's basic mandatory training, like a two-hour training on the rights of protesters that was cut down to 10 minutes and lumped into another lesson.

Schwenk went on to tell Congress that insufficient training could and would result in people being killed.

His testimony stood in stark contrast to the one from acting ICE Director Todd Lyons two weeks ago, which took place amid public outrage over ICE's aggressive tactics.

Lyons denied that the curriculum had changed.

David Nakamura is a reporter with The Washington Post and covered both hearings.

He told us that Democratic lawmakers expressed repeated concerns about the speed in which agents were being put into the field.

The testimony could play into ongoing negotiations over the continued shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

Included in Democrats' demands for funding the department is expanded training and a stricter policy on judicial warrants.

In a statement, DHS said that recruits are receiving the same total hours of training as they always have and that they are given extensive firearm training and instruction on how to observe Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.

Before we let you go, a few other stories we're following.

The Cuban Coast Guard killed four people and injured six during a shootout with an American speedboat yesterday.

According to the country's Interior Ministry, the Florida-registered boat was within a nautical mile of Cuba's northern coast.

When the boat's passengers were approached and asked for identification by border guard troops, the crew on board allegedly began shooting, and Cuban forces returned fire.

News sources were not able to independently confirm Cuba's version of the incident, and it wasn't clear why the boat would have been traveling so close to Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that the DHS, Coast Guard, and others are looking into the incident and described it as highly unusual.

The shooting comes amid Trump's ongoing oil blockade, which has caused an acute energy crisis on the island.

On Wednesday, the U.S.

Treasury said it would authorize companies to resell Venezuelan oil again, which could ease the fuel scarcity.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department said it was reviewing whether any Jeffrey Epstein documents were improperly withheld.