Immigration officers seem to be trained to be 'nasty, mean and cruel,' Schumer says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

02/15/2026 11:52 AM EST


Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday questioned the Department of Homeland Security’s training of immigration officers, calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement a “rogue force.”

“They’re almost trained, it looks like, to be nasty and mean and cruel and go way beyond what ordinary police departments do,” the New York Democrat told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “They need to be reined in and they need to stop the violence,” Schumer added.

Schumer’s comments come after Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security without extensive changes to ICE and Customs and Border Protection following the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month. Their demands include strengthening warrant requirements, unmasking federal immigration officers and ending roving patrols.

Congressional Republicans and the White House have largely rejected the demands, arguing things like unmasking agents could lead to an increase in doxxing officers. But Schumer on Sunday said the argument “makes no sense.” “Every other police department in America is unmasked. ICE can do the same,” he told host Jake Tapper.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/immigration-officers-trained-to-be-nasty-mean-and-cruel-says-schumer-00782629

[LearnedHand]

1. Nope not trained

It’s a basic job requirement.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Probably trained like some none white local LEO's are. "Prove you are a good police by beating the crap out out of

these nig**rs" to the black officers. Substitute "wet**" if a Hispanic officer". Substitute "que**" for gay officers.

[Traildogbob]

2. Nasty mean and cruel?

Ouch, what a burn. Is that your best insult for murdering slim, ass boil racist, with a combined IQ of pi? Up your game Chuck.
Those pricks feed off of weak.
Nasty mean and cruel……Jebussss, they are trained to pump rounds into skulls of woke people on video to get cheers from MAGA. Then laugh and brag. Mean?????

[GiqueCee]

3. There is no "ALMOST" about it, Chuck...

... ICE monsters are chosen specifically BECAUSE of their psychotic tendencies, NOT in spite of them. Once they're suited up and armed, they're turned loose in American communities for the specific purpose of terrorizing those communities into fearful compliance.
Stop trying to put lipstick on this pig, Senator; call it what it is: The intentional destruction of all that made America great in the first place, just to satisfy the vengeful bigotry of a malicious, deceitful, and weak little creature that hates the country that will NEVER let him have his own way ever again.
America is DONE with you, Donald. And we are done with any and all who ever supported this evil narcissist. And if Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, and all the rest of the psychopaths that enabled Trump have any sense of self-preservation, they'll be looking for countries with no extradition treaties.

[orangecrush]

5. Thank God Chuck's on our side

[ms liberty]

6. They're not training them, it's one of their hiring requirements.

They want mean, nasty people.

[William Seger]

7. Of course, it's a deliberate strategy to create fear, because fascists use fear to control people (nt)

[awesomerwb1]

8. Schumer's words/phrasing are always so 25 years ago

[Intractable]

11. About ten years ago, I saw an interview with Schumer where he described something as "namby-pamby."

My immediate reaction was to think, "Yes. That describes what I think of you!"

[BaronChocula]

9. They're being trained to break the law Chuck

Bro, it's getting harder and harder to come to your defense for anything.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

How ICE defies judges’ orders to release detainees, step by step
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-immigration-detention-court-orders-00771727

[Evolve Dammit]

10. No. They came that way. Those were the immediate hires. Proud Boyz, Oat Eaters, 3%ers, dishonorable discharges?