ICE gives up express training of its new agents sent to detain immigrants
ICE gave up the expedited training it provides to its new agents to send them to detain immigrants
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) chose to backtrack on its accelerated training program given to new agents recruited with the objective of sending them as soon as possible to detain immigrants lacking legal status.
With the objective of strengthening the campaign of massive deportations ordered by President Donald Trump, express training aimed at newly entered personnel in the federal agency had been implemented.
However, in a report published by the Politico website, where it quotes a couple of officials linked to the Trump administration under condition of maintaining his identity under protection, it is indicated that ICE waived the accelerated training of its personnel due to the pros problems that arose at the start of the year in Minneapolis, when the inexperience of a pair of officers caused the death of two citizens this Americans while protesting against operations to detain foreigners considered dangerous to the country's security.
Thanks to the funds from the legislative package promoted by President Trump in 2025, it was manageable to hire more staff incorporate it into the strategy of detaining immigrants with police records to send them as soon as possible to their nations of origin.
However, complaints linked to the use of excessive force in ICE operations began to arise and, due to the lack of response from the federal government, several rallies took place that got out of control.
Presumably, the main problem with this was due to the basic training that new Ice agents received, which was reduced to only 72 days.
Hence, said program has been paused to redesign it with the objective of training ICE personnel better.
Under this approach, the training protocols for ICE's Enforcement Operations and Removal Operations (ERO) division are under review.
However, in order to continue moving forward with the agency's operations implemented at a national level, sending veteran agents is now being contemplated. to accompany recently staff and teach them how to react to different adverse conditions when detaining immigrants.