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The Latest: Acting head of Immigration and Customs ousted

FILE - In this March 18, 2014, file photo, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale, left, accompanied by US Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington to discuss the results of a international operation involving an underground child pornography website. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, that Ragsdale has been replaced as acting head of the agency by Thomas Homan. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
FILE - In this March 18, 2014, file photo, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale, left, accompanied by US Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington to discuss the results of a international operation involving an underground child pornography website. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, that Ragsdale has been replaced as acting head of the agency by Thomas Homan. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File) FILE - In this March 18, 2014, file photo, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale, left, accompanied by US Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington to discuss the results of a international operation involving an underground child pornography website. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, that Ragsdale has been replaced as acting head of the agency by Thomas Homan. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):

6:05 a.m.

The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been ousted.

The administration didn’t offer any explanation for the move announced late Monday, the same day that President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for publicly declining to defend Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees.

ICE executive associate director Thomas Homan has been elevated to the role of acting chief. The agency’s Twitter account says that Daniel Ragsdale, now out of that job, was is returning to his previous position as deputy director of ICE.