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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We are in Brunswick, Georgia, which is sort of the southeast corner of Georgia, at the federal law enforcement training center where all the ICE officers get trained. |
| 0:14.7 | A couple of weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, invited a handful of reporters to one of its training academies. |
| 0:22.8 | One of those reporters was our colleague Michelle Hackman. |
| 0:25.6 | And we had this six-hour tour where they showed us like all sorts of different bells and whistles of all the types of classes and training that these deportation officers go through. |
| 0:35.7 | And was there sort of a demonstration or a session that stuck with you? |
| 0:41.5 | There was one in particular that really stuck with me. |
| 0:44.5 | It was sort of the elite ICE deportation officer unit that carries out some of the most high |
| 0:51.6 | profile and dangerous raids. |
| 0:54.0 | And what they did was they brought us on a little bus to this mock neighborhood. |
| 0:59.6 | They told us it was a whole 30-acre pretend neighborhood with houses and fake shops and all that stuff. |
| 1:05.9 | Like a set. |
| 1:06.5 | Like a movie set. Exactly. |
| 1:08.9 | And we parked in front of this house at a cul-de-sac. And they were like, |
| 1:13.2 | okay, stand back. And this armored vehicle pulls up in front of the house. |
| 1:20.8 | Residents of 842 cyberclaim. This is the place to the warn. Open the door. |
| 1:26.0 | And 12 guys loaded out. |
| 1:28.1 | They ran at the house. |
| 1:30.0 | They like pounded on the door really loud and shouted, you know, |
| 1:34.8 | were police open up, open up. |
| 1:37.1 | Police with the warrant, open up! |
| 1:39.5 | Police with the warrant, open up! |
| 1:41.3 | And a few seconds later, they set off a flashbang. |
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