Elissa Slotkin: “ICE used to have five months of training, but they've…”

“The amount of training you need to actually be an official officer of either the police or ice. For police officers in the state of Michigan, training is about 75 days or 600 hours. Now, ICE used to have five months of training, but they've shortened it now to 47 days. We understand that the number 47 was picked because President Trump is the 47th president. So just 47 days of training in order to become a full fledged ICE agent, when heretofore you are not in any kind of law enforcement.” (01:55–02:01)

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