All Border Patrol agents have been ordered to return home from Minneapolis after a protester was shot dead by federal agents on Saturday, according to a report.
A major shakeup is underway after Border Czar Tom Homan was ordered by Donald Trump to take over the ICE operation in Minnesota, sidelining Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, who has been on the ground helping federal agents detain migrants, has been ordered to leave along with all his agents, according to The Washington Examiner.
Homan will hold a press conference later announcing that Border Patrol are quitting the state, leaving ICE in place – around 500 of the 3,000 agents on the ground.
The decision is aimed at de-escalating the violence between federal agents and anti-ICE rioters which exploded on Saturday following the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse.
Pretti’s killing came less than three weeks after the death of Renee Good, a mother-of-three who was shot dead by ICE after obstructing agents with her car.
US Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino walks to his vehicle at a gas station in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 21
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a news conference at the headquarters for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to discuss a major winter storm affecting much of the country as well as the shooting death of a Minneapolis man by federal agents in Minnesota, in Washington, DC, on January 24