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Brunswick, Georgia – 21 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press:
"We’re down here in Georgia at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to see how ICE trains ERO officers. These are the people that are out in the streets or making arrests of people for immigration related reasons. And so we’re trying to hear today, we are seeing what kind of training they do. We’re seeing how they teach people on driving, how we teach people how to use weapons, and teaching them about the law and how that applies to people that they’re going after for immigration enforcement reasons. And the reason we’re down here is because the Trump administration has got this huge boost of money from the reconciliation bill. And with that, they’re gonna be hiring 10,000 more deportation officers."
2. ICE agents wide training on firearms
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press:
"So we were here today to see mostly what ICE is training for and how they’re training. But this is the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, which is used for training for agencies across the federal government that are in law enforcement. Just about everybody except for FBI and a few others train here at this facility."
4. ICE agents training on firearms
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press:
"So with the money that they’re getting from Congress now with what’s kind of popularly known as the big beautiful bill, they’re going to be able to do a lot more hiring, they are going to have a lot more detention space, but they’re also getting a lot of equipment. That was one of the things that Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, told us is that they are being able to make sure that they have the best equipment for their officers. They also were getting new equipment that was not necessarily standard for everybody. That is now becoming standard, for example, he mentioned gas masks as something that everyone will get as part of their kit."
6. ICE agents wide training on firearms
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press:
" So throughout the day, this was a tour that started at 8 a.m. And finished around four o’clock in the afternoon and really traveling all around the training center to see everything that entails. And generally, we were with Todd Lyons, who is the acting director of ICE, as well as Caleb Vitello, who is in charge of ICE training."
8. Various of ICE agents training on firearms
STORYLINE:
The agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations is preparing to hire 10,000 more officers as the government gears up for a major expansion of immigration enforcement, AP’s Rebecca Santana explains.
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons told reporters after visiting a training facility in Brunswick, Georgia, that agency had received over one hundred thousand applicants.
"The good thing is that we can be picky. We don’t have to just take anybody or try to have, you know, fit that square peg into a round hole just to get numbers because we have so many qualified applicants," he added.
All of this is made possible by a big infusion of money to ICE.
The package of tax breaks and spending cuts that Trump signed into law last month includes about $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement, spread out over five years.
New hires include deportation officers responsible for tracking down, arresting and removing people who the administration determines no longer have the right to remain in the United States.
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