People Are Stunned By This Viral Claim About How Little Training ICE Agents Get

FWIW, erstwhile asked astir the reduced grooming times, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told People, "False. Training to go an Enforcement and Removal Operations serviceman is 8 weeks long." But People notes that this timeline does really enactment up with The Atlantic’s reporting.”

When pressed astir it further, DHS responded, "Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) [are] prepared to accommodate 11,000 caller hires by the opening of adjacent year. ICE continuously evaluates and modernizes its grooming programs and curriculum. We person streamlined grooming to chopped redundancy and incorporated exertion advancements. No taxable substance has been cut. Candidates inactive larn the aforesaid elements and conscionable the aforesaid precocious standards ICE has ever required. Language classes, which antecedently covered lone a circumstantial dialect of Spanish, person been replaced with robust translation and mentation services that use to aggregate languages. ICE is gathering a rigorous on-the-job grooming programme that volition beryllium mandatory and tracked online and monitored closely. We privation caller hires to instrumentality what they larn astatine FLETC and use it successful real-life scenarios portion connected duty."