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- New agency guidance allows investigations to charge immigration officers involved in violent incidents.
- Homeland Security Investigations will conduct probes of confrontations between immigration agents and civilians under the guidance.
- Trump administration officials say assaulting or interfering with immigration agents can carry felony charges punishable by up to eight years in prison.
- Moving oversight from the FBI to DHS reflects a policy choice to keep investigations inside immigration enforcement.
