Collins said she has gotten significant ICE reforms into law. She cited $20 million for body cameras, a 17% budget increase for the Homeland Security inspector general and more money for de-escalation training. She also acknowledged a problem with the agency’s rapid expansion.
“I think what happened is far too many ICE officers were hired and deployed without adequate vetting and training,” Collins said.
Jackson turned that against her. He said the agent who killed Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford was part of a force Collins herself says wasn’t properly vetted, and he called ICE “a rogue agency that’s doing Donald Trump’s bidding.” He said Customs and Border Protection could take over ICE’s work on trafficking and drug smuggling, which Collins cited as reasons not to abolish it.
