The Trump Administration is pausing training at the federal government’s primary law enforcement academies for anyone not related to immigration enforcement, saying the change is necessary to meet the president’s “immediate priorities.”
Acting Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Director Paul Baker said that “to support the onboarding of 10,000 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations personnel and 1,000 ICE Homeland Security Investigations personnel by Dec. 31st, 2025, we must focus our resources on surge-related training” and that as a result, “training programs for agencies not directly involved in these efforts, originally scheduled between September 9 and December 31, 2025 will be rescheduled to later dates in Fiscal Year 2026.”