On February 24, 2026, former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank, once responsible for training, critically assessed the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) training program for new employees as "deficient, flawed, and broken" at a Democratic congressional forum in Washington, D.C. He stated that essential training components were cut, reducing the basic training from over 13 weeks to just 6-8 weeks under the Trump administration, which aimed to double ICE personnel from 10,000 to 22,000. Schwank refuted claims that no vital content was removed, calling it a "lie." He also reported witnessing recruits using disproportionate force during training and highlighted recent incidents of alleged excessive force and killings by ICE agents, including the shooting of US citizen Renee Good.