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Insiders Says DHS Chief Created Confusion With Remarks on Body Cameras

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has baffled department insiders by offering an unnecessarily long timeline to equip federal immigration agents with body cameras. Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been under intense pressure to wear body cameras as the administration carries out President Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation campaign , which has resulted in the deaths of two U.S. citizens. The Department of Homeland Security promised to equip ICE agents with the devices within 60 days after the fatal shootings in July of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. The company Axon was awarded a $13.1 million contract to provide cameras for every ICE employee. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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