Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla lambasted the training standards for newly hired immigration agents in a scathing letter to the Trump administration on Thursday.
The senators are pushing for information from the Department of Homeland Security and its subagencies — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — about the vetting, training and supervision protocols for new hires and personnel who have been reassigned to street enforcement.
“In only months, DHS’s failure to meet its obligations has tarnished the reputation of federal law enforcement, endangered and victimized the public, and eroded public trust in the rule of law,” Booker and Padilla write in the letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the heads of ICE and CBP, first reported by NOTUS.