Waylon Wong
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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I'm Waylon Wong, normally a co-host of Planet Money's daily podcast, The Indicator.
Today on the show, the ICE hiring boom is having domino effects.
How has training new officers changed and at what cost?
Also, the Trump administration has plans to pour billions of dollars into warehouses for mass immigrant detention centers, which can totally change the economy of some areas.
We hear from a rural town in Georgia that wants an ICE facility in its own backyard.
The Trump administration's massive tax and spending law gave $750 million to something called the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers.
These are the facilities that train recruits for ICE, U.S.
Border Patrol, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.
So Mark would get the trainees lined up on the street of this fake city.
And he would tell them, this is what you do if you're trying to arrest someone and a crowd starts to form.
Or maybe there are protesters.
So how much instruction do new ICE recruits get?
Well, there's been a lot of contradictory information on this, including from the government.
We reached out to DHS for clarification.
Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told us that officers are getting the same number of training hours.
Matthew Ross is an economist at Northeastern University who studies police training.
He says he's concerned that the program for ICE officers has changed significantly in a short amount of time.
One major change in the ICE training has to do with learning Spanish.
Previously, new ICE agents got five weeks of Spanish instruction.
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