Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images A former ICE instructor delivered shocking testimony on Monday about training standards inside the agency, claiming that they had been dramatically reduced and that the agency’s top brass had been lying to Congress about it. Ryan Schwank, who last week resigned from his job at an ICE academy in Georgia, told congressional Democrats that the agency had eliminated 240 hours of vital classes from its 580-hour training program, including classes on the legal boundaries of the use of force, how to conduct detentions and arrests, and firearm training. “I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution when I joined ICE on August 1, 2021, as an assistant chief counsel,” Schwank told the joint panel of House and Senate Democrats. “I followed that oath for four and a half years working side-by-side with ICE officers, and I followed it when I resigned on February 13, 2026, a little over a week ago, so that I could speak to you today.” Read more at The Daily Beast.