27 m. ago Minneapolis shooting live updates: Border Patrol chief Bovino to reportedly leave city amid backlash over Alex Pretti killing

Bovino and other federal agents will depart Minneapolis as early as Tuesday, according to reports

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92 m. ago Greg Bovino is locked out of his official social media accounts and is expected to leave Minneapolis amid Alex Pretti shooting fallout

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, one of the faces of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, has been removed from his role as 'commander at large.'

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2 h. ago Greg Bovino 'loses top job at Border Patrol' and LOCKED OUT of social media amid fallout over Alex Pretti shooting

Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, one of the faces of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, has been removed from his role as 'commander at large.'

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2 h. ago This is the moment Trump pivoted: TOM LEONARD dissects every reaction to Alex Pretti's shooting, why it crossed a red line for Republicans... and what it means for the president's critical next move

Furious soundbites - coupled with demands for an investigation of the death at the hands of Border Patrol agents - haven't come from Democrats. They have come from Republicans.

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3 h. ago Trump’s ICE crackdown faces reckoning as outrage mounts over Alex Pretti shooting

Federal agents set to scale back presence in Minneapolis as president and allies strike more conciliatory toneDonald Trump’s efforts to deploy militarized immigration agents in US cities may finally be reaching a reckoning as he faces widespread opposition across the US, dissenting lawmakers in his own party, and impending court rulings after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis.While there was no sign the aggressive tactics used by immigration enforcement are coming to an end, the mayor of Minneapolis said the administration would begin to scale back the number of federal agents in Minneapolis starting on Tuesday, as the president and his team soften their harsh rhetoric regarding Pretti’s killing. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Sister of ICU nurse Alex Pretti hits out at 'disgusting lies' and honors brother as a hero

Micayla Pretti broke her silence on her 37-year-old brother's highly publicized death in a statement on Monday.

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4 h. ago ‘The world is hurting right now’: politics and protest hit the Sundance film festival

A conflicted mood has lingered over Utah’s long-running film festival with premieres and parties continuing but stars speaking out against government crueltyThe news began to spread through the Sundance film festival on Saturday morning, as people emerged from early screenings or long nights out at the bars on Main Street.“If you all have not heard what’s going on in Minnesota this morning, someone else was murdered by ICE,” director Ava DuVernay told the audience at a panel on freedom of expression, referring to the shooting that morning of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, by Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) agents in Minneapolis. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Minneapolis shooting live updates: Report claims Bovino’s position in doubt as mayor says some agents will leave city

A new report says Bovino will be removed as Border Patrol’s ‘commander at large’ after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

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6 h. ago Tim Walz and Jacob Frey say Trump is withdrawing federal officers from Minnesota in wake of Alex Pretti shooting

Plans to withdraw and new oversight from Tom Homan follow mass protests, declining public opinion polls, and lawsuits demanding and end to administration’s surge

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6 h. ago What we know about the investigations into the Minneapolis shooting death of Alex Pretti

The fatal shooting of Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers has sparked calls for an independent investigation

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6 h. ago Minneapolis shooting live updates: Mayor says some federal agents will leave city as Trump sends border czar to Minnesota

President Donald Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to oversee ICE operations in Minnesota

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7 h. ago Second federal killing in Minneapolis: how the shooting of Alex Pretti unfolded – video analysis

Warning: this video contains footage that may be distressing to some viewersAt about 9am on Saturday, US federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse who was observing immigration officers in the city. The Guardian’s video team has pieced together footage showing the attack from different angles Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Kristi Noem sees odds of being fired spike on Polymarket in wake of Alex Pretti shooting

The Homeland Security secretary sparked fury by claiming against all visible evidence that Pretti had ‘violently’ attacked federal agents in Minneapolis

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7 h. ago Trump signals shift on immigration crackdown as ICE backlash intensifies

President dispatches Tom Homan and calls governor Tim Walz in effort to address outrage over shooting of second protester

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7 h. ago Trump moves the goal posts on Alex Pretti killing. Has the public’s ICE anger finally hit home at the White House?

ANALYSIS: Trump’s dispatching of Tom Homan to Minneapolis lets him keep his base happy while avoiding more of the violence that has stoked massive public anger in recent days, Andrew Feinberg writes

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8 h. ago Sadiq Khan tears into Donald Trump's immigration crackdown warning ICE raids taking America to 'dark place'

Mayor of London unleashed ferocious criticism of the hardline borders policy after two Americans shot dead by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teams

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10 h. ago Kristi Noem's White House cheerleaders blame SNOW in bold new excuse for why she botched Alex Pretti shooting response

The shooting of Alex Pretti, 37 in Minneapolis on Saturday seemed to signal a turning point in President Trump's thinking, with even some Republicans demanding ICE be reined in.

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10 h. ago Minnesota shooting live updates: Trump vows to work with Walz as border czar sent to lead ICE operation

President Donald Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to oversee ICE operations in Minnesota

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10 h. ago The Guardian view on a second ICE killing in Minneapolis: midnight in America | Editorial

The shooting of Alex Pretti was carried out by a federal agent licensed to act with impunity. The US must be rescued from Trump’s authoritarianismFollowing the fatal shooting earlier this month of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, his colleagues received reassurance that they continued to enjoy “federal immunity” for their actions. “Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony,” the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, had previously stated. “No city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.”Words have consequences. Ms Good, a US citizen and mother of three children, had in fact been attempting to drive away from a protest in Minneapolis, where ICE’s deportation snatch squads have terrorised migrants and those who have attempted to defend their rights. On Saturday, in the same...

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11 h. ago Tim Walz claims Trump to consider ‘reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota’ in wake of Alex Pretti shooting

New oversight from Tom Homan follows weeks of protests, declining public opinion polls and federal lawsuit demanding urgent withdrawal of federal officers

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