Brunswick, GA. (AP) – In a barrier course in Humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows how to pull an injured partner out of danger. In a classroom with a disorganized desk with thick legal books about the immigration law, the recruitment reveals how the fourth amendment controls their work. And with shell casing on a firing range, with new recruits Immigration and Customs Enforcement Practice the shooting of their handgun.
A voice on the loudspeaker said, “The instructor, give me a thumb when the students are ready to go,” a voice on the loudspeaker said that a group of about 20 ice recruitments practiced and practiced firing their weapons.
Bronvik, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, is the subscription of training for almost all federal law enforcement officers, including immigration and customs enforcement officers who are at the center of President Donald Trump Large scale exile efforts.
Now, in this summer, a lot of money approved by the Congress is starting to flow into the snow, the agency is between a huge recruitment effort as it aims to bring thousands of new exile officers into the field in the coming months.
On Thursday, Associated Presses and other news organizations received a rare eye on the basic immigration law enforcement training program that new snow recruitment – especially those in the operational unit of enforcement and removal of those who are responsible for finding, arresting and removing people from the country – they pass passed and they learn what they learn.
Putting, training
The ICE is getting $ 76.5 billion in new money from the Congress to help Trump’s large -scale exile target. This is about 10 times the current annual budget of the agency. That money is about 30 billion dollars for new employees.
They are hiring in the agency including investigators and lawyers, but in those areas the numbers are hiring, compared to which they are coming on the board. ICE Acting Director Todd Leone was under training on Thursday. He said that the agency currently has about 6,500 exile officers and aims to rent more than 10,000 by the end of the year.
There have been concerns with that hiring surge that the veating or training of new recruitments will be reduced. Border patrol In the early 2000s, a uniform work was gone through a bounce when the training standards were placed and the training standards were replaced; Arrest for employee misconduct rose.
Leones pushed back on concerns that snow can cut corners when you talk about training. However, he said that he has made changes designed to streamlide the process.
“I was not going to water under training,” Lyon said.
Kaleb Vitalo, assistant director of ICE in -charge, says that the new recruitments will undergo almost eight weeks of training in Georgia facility. But they also have training before and after coming here.
A major change, Vitello said: Ice cut the five-week Spanish-language training because he said that the recruitments were only reaching the point of being “modest” in Spanish. He said that language translation technology can help in filling that void in the area.
What does the training look like?
During the training of six-day-wealth, the new recruits remain on the basis of huge convenience, covered with pine forests and sits near the Atlantic Ocean, slightly lower than one hour drive to the north of the Florida State Line. Hundreds of people have gone through training here in recent months.
During the course, the new recruitment trains on firearms in a large indoor shooting range that looks large as a football ground. On Thursday, the floor was attached to the shell casing spent as about 20 new recruits were shot from a Libra-Kohini position wearing blue shirts and blue pants and transitional shoots-which included transferring their guns from one hand to the other. The trainers in the red shirt followed him, sometimes giving them instructions. All wore eyes protection and red, noise reducing earmffs.
Dean Wilson, who oversees the training of firearms, compared some tasks, which ice agents encounter a haunted house, where they do not know what they can come to.
Wilson said, “We try our best to ensure that even though they are in that environment, they have a wave to make appropriate decisions.” “Nobody wants to be one to make a bad shot, and no one wants what does not make it home.”
In a large area with various driving tracks and courses, they also train on driving techniques – how to overcome a skid on a wet pavement or how to navigate a curved course similar to urban environment, where they have to come to a complete break or navigate blind corners.
Leone said that the syllabus included the De-Syscalance technique designed to prevent the use of force in the first place.
“In any type of law enforcement,” he said, “you will de-size with words before using any use of force.”
Learning law and fourth amendment
Not all are in the training field.
The Ice agents like to tell that when it comes to complexity, the immigration law is only in second place after the tax code.
In the Training Academy, they get about 12 hours of class instructions on things such as the fourth amendment – the part of the Constitution that prevents unfair discoveries and seizures – and the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which has evolved over decades and controls all aspects of immigration. Those legal lessons have also been included in the rest of the training.
Training manual and immigration law handbooks on the desk in a class is about two to three inches thick. Learn about the recruitments how to determine if someone is removable from the country, under which circumstances they can go to search in someone’s house and when they have to leave.
Ice employees pushed back on the allegations that they were indiscriminately pulling people or installation of posts at Washington, DC, or other places as part of immigration enforcement.
He said that they should have a possible reason to go after someone, and they conduct targeted operations. They said that they cannot – and no – traffic stops, but can work with local authorities.
“Once local law enforce makes a stop, and then they contact snow saying that we have someone who can possibly be a foreigner,” said Greg Hornsbi, a colleague legal advisor in ICE. “And this is the place where we step.”
Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
