Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers

ICE slashed training time for outsiders in effort to ramp up more arrests: internal emails

Under pressure from Donald Trump’s White House, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gutted training programs for outside law enforcement agencies recruited to round up immigrants, according to internal emails reviewed by The Washington Post.The administration reduced training for officers whose departments agreed to assist ICE from "four weeks of in-person education to 40 hours of virtual training" last year, as part of a broader effort to…

Emails Show How ICE Scaled Back Training For Cops

The Washington Post reports: The Department of Homeland Security sped up training for police officers making immigration arrests by scaling back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws and real world scenarios they might encounter, according to emails reviewed by The Washington Post. The Trump administration reduced training for officers whose departments agreed to help U.S. … The post Emails Show How ICE Scaled Back Training For Cops appea…

Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers

Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.

Leaked Emails Show ICE Gutted Training to Help Boost Trump’s Arrests

Officers working with local ICE-partnered law enforcement agencies now only have to undergo 40 hours of virtual training, down from four weeks of in-person work.