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Trump team drops accelerated training program for new ICE agents in rare climbdown: report

The Independent·Alex Woodward·27 days ago
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Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly ditching a fast-tracked training program for Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits after a blitz of federal agents into cities across the country sparked chaos on the ground and bipartisan outrage in Congress. The shakeup reported by Politico follows bipartisan scrutiny and growing outrage across the country over violent ICE arrests, in-custody deaths and fatal shootings of two demonstrators A deal to revisit ICE training standards reportedly followed behind-the-scenes demands from members of Congress who hold the agency’s purse strings , resulting in what one official told Politico was a “handshake deal” that avoided a bitter debate to firm up training language in the funding bill that ended a 76-day partial government shutdown.…

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