Ryan Schwenk

Classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention, and the limits of officers' authority.

For example, they ceased all of the legal instructions regarding use of force.

This means that cadets are not taught what it means to be objectively reasonable.

The very standard which the law requires them to meet when deciding whether or not to use deadly force.

Our jobs as instructors are to teach them so well that they can make split second decisions about what they can and cannot do in life or death situations.

Yet in the name of churning out an endless stream of officers, DHS leadership has dismantled the academic and practical tests that we need to know if cadets can safely and lawfully perform their job.

all to satisfy an administration demanding they train thousands of new officers before the end of the year.

DHS told the public that new cadets receive all the training they need to perform their duties, that no critical material or standards have been cut.

This is a lie.

On my first day, I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program, cutting 240 hours.

of vital classes from a 584-hour program, classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention, and the limits of officers' authority.

For example, they ceased all of the legal instructions regarding use of force.

For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program, cutting 240 hours of vital classes from 580... A former ICE official has come forward as a whistleblower, alleging that the training protocol for new agents is broken and deficient.

Law enforcement is a deadly serious business.

It is not a place for shortcuts.

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.