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(NewsNation) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials successful astatine slightest 5 large cities are being temporarily replaced by elder Border Patrol agents, sources confirmed to NewsNation.
The cities see Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Diego. ICE officers successful those locations were relieved of their jobs past week and moved to different positions wrong the agency, the sources said.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, successful a statement, said the medication had "no unit changes to denote astatine this time," but praised President Donald Trump and his squad for "delivering results and removing convulsive transgression amerciable aliens from this country."
Border Patrol has been carrying retired the bulk of the sweeping raids that mostly pb to protests astatine the absorption of Chief Gregory Bovino, who appeared successful tribunal Tuesday implicit allegations that helium threw teardrop state canisters during an migration enforcement cognition successful Chicago.
Border Patrol agents besides transportation retired targeted enforcement operations. By comparison, ICE officers mostly instrumentality to 1 people aft they behaviour research.
Earlier this month, Bovino told NewsNation that Border Patrol operations are "all legal, ethical and moral."
Fox News reports that the alteration successful staffing comes from competing factions wrong deportation enforcement, with Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE Director Todd Lyons squared disconnected against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Bovino.
Sources judge that ICE's existent enforcement attack is not producing the fig of arrests Trump wants, but Bovino's broader methods look to beryllium what the medication is after.
“We are going to spell passim Chicago with reckless wantonness — professionally, legally, ethically and morally — and apprehension each amerciable alien pack members that we tin get our hands on,” Bovino told NewsNation.
By temporarily detailing Border Patrol agents retired successful ICE's stead, the operations successful immoderate of the nation's large cities volition apt displacement toward Bovino's methods.
