Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, met with Minnesota's governor on Tuesday ahead of talks with the mayor of Minneapolis, as the White House seeks to defuse the unrest that has gripped the city after fatal shootings.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, met with Minnesota's governor on Tuesday ahead of talks with the mayor of Minneapolis, as the White House seeks to defuse the unrest that has gripped the city after the fatal shootings of two U.
S. citizens by federal agents.The move to install Homan in charge of the operation in place of Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, who sources said is leaving after having led most of Trump's crackdowns in Democratic-led cities, is part of a broader reset by the president to soften his administration's aggressive posture in Minneapolis. Some advisers are concerned that Saturday's killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal officers, which sparked national outrage, could derail Trump's immigration agenda.Homan's job in Minneapolis is to "recalibrate tactics" and improve cooperation with state and local officials, a source with ties to the White House said."The goal is to scale back, eventually pull out," the source added.A senior Trump administration official said Homan would move away from the broad, public neighborhood sweeps that Bovino had conducted in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities and adopt a more traditional targeted approach.In a statement, Governor Tim Walz said he had outlined the state's priorities to Homan, including impartial investigations into the two shootings and reducing the 3,000-strong force of federal agents that has been deployed to the city. Homan and Walz agreed to "continue working toward those goals," the governor said.Homan was also expected to sit down with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Trump said on social media.The president spent the weekend huddling with senior advisers to reassess the administration's response to Pretti's death on Saturday, according to the same source and a White House official. As in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good earlier this month, some Trump administration officials initially responded by accusing Pretti of domestic terrorism, a claim belied by witness video verified by Reuters that showed he posed no threat.The discussions included reducing the number of agents in Minnesota, recalibrating the mission to focus more narrowly on deportations and exploring greater coordination with state authorities. Trump also weighed whether immigration officers should be required to have body-worn cameras, as many police officers do, according to the White House official.Support for Tru
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