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The Department of Homeland Security is conducting its third major shakeup of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership since President Donald Trump took office in January, replacing 12 of the 25 field office directors, The Associated Press and Axios said Tuesday. Half of the new ICE directors are reportedly from DHS’s more aggressive Customs and Border Protection branch.

The controversial tactics of CBP’s Border Patrol unit were at the center of a court hearing in Chicago Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol sector chief from California overseeing Trump’s Chicago-area crackdown, to brief her nightly on his agents’ compliance with her order barring the use of tear gas and other riot control measures in most instanc

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