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Who Knew the Department of Education Even Had SWAT Teams? « Student Activism

Who Knew the Department of Education Even Had SWAT Teams? « Student Activism

Who Knew the Department of Education Even Had SWAT Teams?

Stockton, California resident Kenneth Wright says a team of federal agents sent by the Department of Education busted down his door without warning yesterday morning, handcuffing him in the back of a cop car for more than six hours. And, he says, it was all because his estranged wife defaulted on her student loans.

The feds, meanwhile, deny that the raid was conducted over a student loan default, but confirm that the squad was sent by the DOE. The department’s Office of the Inspector General, a spokesperson says, “conducts about