The immigration and customs authority is an agency in the Ministry of Homeland Protection, which is essential for President Donald Trump's vision to carry out the mass deportations that he promised during the campaign. Deportation officers within a unit called enforcement and removal are those who are responsible for enforcing immigration. You will find and remove people from the United States who are not American citizens and can no longer stay in the country for various reasons.
Some might have gone through an immigration court and a judge removed them. Or they were arrested or convicted of certain crimes, or repeatedly entered the country illegally or exceeded a visa. ICE also manages a growing network of immigration security facilities across the country, in which people are suspected against immigration injuries.
Overall, his activities have polarized many Americans in the past few months.
After years in which the number of deportation officers remained largely the same, the agency now quickly stops. This summer, the congress passed the legislation with ice cream with 76.5 billion US dollars in new money to accelerate the pace of deportation. This is almost ten times the annual budget of the agency. Almost 30 billion US dollars are suitable for new employees.
Last week, the Associated Press had the opportunity to visit the base in South Georgia, where new ice recruits are trained and talking to the leading management of the agency. Here are details of four things that have come from these conversations.
It increases
ICE currently has around 6,500 deportation officers and is trying aggressively to improve these figures. The incumbent director Todd Lyons says he wanted to hire another 10,000 by the end of the year.
The agency has launched a new recruitment website, offers bonuses of up to 50,000 US dollars and is advertising at Career Expos. According to Lyons, the agency has already received 121,000 applications – many of former officers.
New recruits are trained in the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia. This is a spacious facility near the coast, in which the federal law enforcement officers – not only in ice agents – live and train from all over the country. ICE is looking for more than twice as many instructors who train deportation officers.
Caleb Vitello, who runs a training session for ICE, says that it has reduced the Spanish -language requirements to reduce training by five weeks, and he was looking for opportunities to optimize training and recruits in the external offices in which you are assigned more.
It is preparing for conflicts
When Trump's efforts to deport millions of people have developed violent episodes when ice tried to arrest people. Critics said ice cream was too stubborn in carrying out arrests, while ICE says that his people are those who are attacked.
According to Vitello, the agency pursues every time the officials apply violence and when someone attacks their officers. According to the agency's data, ICE officers reported attacks from January 21 to August 5, 121 compared to 11 in the same period of the previous year.
Lyons said that after recent operations in Los Angeles, Ice has become violent that ICE gas masks and helmets standard problem for new agents. “At the moment we see and have to adapt to all different scenarios for which we have never been trained in the past,” he said.
According to Lyons, the agency also begins to send security teams to accompany agents that make arrests: “We will no longer allow people to throw stones because we will have our own agents and officials there to protect those who are actually out there.”
Specialized units for high -risk situations are imposed
About eight deportation officials who were dressed in uniforms in military style, helmets and a selection of weapons are in front of a house that “police! We have an arrest warrant!”. Before entering and extinguishing the house.
You are members of a special reaction team who participates in a demonstration in the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. These officers are like a SWAT team – deportation officers with special training to help in difficult situations. They also accompany prisoners who considers the agency to be dangerous if they are deported.
“Everyone is trained to meet an arrest warrant,” said Vitello. “These boys are trained for arrest warrants with high risk.”
There are around 450 deportation officers with the special training to serve these teams, and Lyons said they were used to support immigration in Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon and Washington.
He said he would like to have more units, but not just like many. Vitello said that they are also in the process of getting more of specially armored vehicles.
It teaches who can arrest agents – and when
New recruits for ice cream receive training courses on the Immigration Act and the fourth change, which protects against illegal searches. Long -term civil servants receive regular updates on these topics.
In limited situations, ICE agents are allowed to enter a person's house. If you are looking for someone you want to remove from the country, you generally have an administrative order in contrast to a criminal arrest warrant. This administrative order does not allow you to enter the house without first receiving permission.
According to Vitello, the new recruits are taught about the various arrest warrants and the distinction between the rules. And they taught how those who allow ice cream to enter their house can change their opinion.
“If someone says” Go out “and you have no goal, you have to go,” he said.
Several videos on social media have shown that ice officers break the car windows to get someone out of a vehicle and arrest this person.
The fourth amendment application does not extend to a person's vehicle, so Vitello said that deportation officers are authorized to arrest someone in a car or truck. Vitello said, in the rare case in which there was a destination in a motorhome, the officials first spoke to the agency's lawyers to find out what protection applies.
