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Former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin returned to the public eye and bristled during an exchange with a fellow CNN panelist on Tuesday.

McLaughlin, who left the Trump administration in February, joined anchor Kasie Hunt for the first time on CNN during the live broadcast to discuss the Department of Justice's indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, who was charged with threatening the life of President Donald Trump. The indictment stemmed from an image of seashells that Comey posted on Instagram while on a beach walk along the North Carolina coast last year that said "8647."

"I do think it's worth pointing out. Getting a grand jury to hand down an indictment. It does take a bit of time. So this was not something that was done immediately in response to Saturday's event," Hunt said....

A MAGA Fox News commentator who was reportedly selected to join the Department of Homeland Security as a spokesperson was outraged just days ago after she claimed her gym bullied her for wearing a Trump hat.

Katie Zacharia, an adviser to Richard Grenell, the current interim head of the Trump-Kennedy Center and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, has been hired by DHS following the announcement that top DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin was leaving the Trump administration, a source told Axios in a report published Tuesday. Zacharia will join the agency as deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Public Affairs.

Zacharia penned an opinion piece on Sunday for the California Post, the New York Post's new West Coast operation, saying she was unfairly treated by people at her California kickboxing gym after wearing a particular hat and referred to "MAGA bullies."...

Italians were angry Tuesday after news that the US was sending ICE agents to the Winter Olympics in Italy.

The announcement reportedly set off confusion after the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the unit was heading to Europe to apparently work as "a security role" for the US delegation at the international event, a DHS spokesperson confirmed with CNN.

“They don’t do immigration enforcement (operations) in a foreign country obviously,” the spokesperson said....

A DHS official was criticized Monday after admitting that ICE agents had wrongly taken a U.S. citizen who was showering and forced him outside his home in his underwear in the freezing cold.

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin attempted to respond to a social post where Louansee Moua claimed that ICE broke down the door of her brother-in-law Saly's Minnesota apartment on Sunday. In her post on X, McLaughlin described the alleged targeted operation in Saint Paul, despite the reality that the man ICE agents handcuffed was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

"Yesterday in St. Paul, ICE conducted a targeted operation of 2 convicted sex offenders. One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence, and violating a protective order. Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge," McLaughlin claimed. ...

A Trump administration official went on the defensive Monday after a report that the administration is far outspending previous administrations on chemical weapons — and using them against its own citizens.

Advocates have criticized the administration for its spending and accused ICE agents of using force and chemical weapons, including pepper spray and pepper ball projectiles, on people protesting the administration's immigration policies, according to a Newsweek report.

Compared to previous administrations, the Trump administration's spending on chemical weapons has skyrocketed. ...

A Trump official on Wednesday struggled to defend the Trump administration's racist attack on Somalis.

CNN anchor John Berman asked Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, "Exactly how much of the Somali American community in Minnesota, an estimated 40,000 of whom were born in Somalia, could be considered garbage," The New Republic reported.

Berman was referring to President Donald Trump's rant Tuesday in which he claimed that Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her entire community are "garbage."...