Ryan Schwenk

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This American Life · 882: Give a Little Whistle · 8 Mar 2026 podcast

So he checked the existing curriculum to see what it said about using warrants to enter people's homes.

Remember, there are written training materials for the classes.

And in the training materials, it says an I-205 admin warrant is not a search warrant.

You may not use it to enter into a protected or private area.

So the training documents say the exact opposite of what the policy says.

And I was told that we were not going to change that, that we were not to put it in writing, that we trained them differently.

And the whole time I was going, I probably need to report this.

I probably need to report this to somebody.

So for the first couple of days, I'm like buying time.

So I try to figure out what I want to do.

Like I'm just kind of staying in the background, trying to stand on the radar.

I start looking into our internal avenues for reporting things.

And what I found was that they had all either been compromised or destroyed.

Like, they had all been fired or reassigned.

Civil rights, civil liberties was essentially gone.

What's called the Office of the Arms Budman was essentially gone.

The only thing that was left was the Office of the Inspector General for ICE.

Mm-hmm.

The Office of the Inspector General, OIG.

And...

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