<\/p>\n Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Response Team members demonstrate how the team enters a residence in the pursuit of a wanted subject at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo\/Fran Ruchalski)<\/p>\n Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Response Team members demonstrate how the team enters a residence in the pursuit of a wanted subject at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo\/Fran Ruchalski)<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n New recruits are trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia. That\u2019s a sprawling facility near the coast where federal law enforcement officers \u2014 not just ICE agents \u2014 from around the country live and train. ICE is looking to more than double the number of instructors who train deportation officers.<\/p>\n Caleb Vitello, who runs training for ICE, says it has cut Spanish-language requirements to reduce training by five weeks, and he\u2019s been looking for ways to streamline the training and have recruits do more at the field offices where they\u2019re assigned.<\/p>\n It\u2019s preparing for conflict<\/p>\n As Trump\u2019s effort to deport millions of people has intensified, violent episodes<\/a> have unfolded as ICE seeks to arrest people. Critics have said ICE is being too heavy-handed in carrying out arrests while ICE says its people<\/a> are the ones being attacked.<\/p>\n Vitello said the agency tracks every time officers use force as well as any time someone attacks its officers. According to the agency\u2019s data, from Jan. 21 through Aug. 5 there were 121 reported assaults of ICE officers compared with 11 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Response Team demonstrates how the team deploys at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo\/Fran Ruchalski)<\/p>\n A member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Response Team demonstrates how the team deploys at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo\/Fran Ruchalski)<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Lyons said that after recent operations in Los Angeles turned violent, ICE is making gas masks and helmets standard issue for new agents. \u201cRight now we\u2019re seeing and we\u2019re having to adapt to all different scenarios that we were never trained for in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Lyons says the agency is also starting to send out security teams to accompany agents making arrests: \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna allow people to throw rocks anymore, because we\u2019re going to have our own agents and officers there to protect the ones that are actually out there making that arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s beefing up specialized units for high-risk situations<\/p>\n About eight deportation officers dressed in military-style camouflage uniforms, helmets and carrying an assortment of weapons stand outside a house yelling \u201cPolice! We have a warrant!\u201d before entering and clearing the house.<\/p>\n They are members of a Special Response Team taking part in a demonstration at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. These officers are like a SWAT team \u2014 deportation officers with special training to assist in difficult situations. They also accompany detainees the agency deems dangerous when they are deported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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