A senior Border Patrol leader will reportedly be leaving Minnesota after the second federal immigration-related shooting death occurred in the state.
Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino is reported to be leaving Minnesota by Tuesday, according to multiple media outlets citing anonymous administration sources. The moves follow the deadly shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on Jan. 7 and the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, sparking widespread protests and Democrat threats to deny funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless major reforms are enacted.
Bovino, who had been leading agents during the DHS surge in Minneapolis, has quickly become one of the main faces of the White House’s immigration crackdown across the country.
President Donald Trump revealed Monday that he spoke over the phone with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and the two had a constructive conversation over the situation.
“Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump stated on Truth Social. “I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future.”
The president had previously confirmed on Truth Social that he was deploying Tom Homan, who leads the administration’s deportation agenda, to Minnesota amid the public uproar.
The Trump administration has stood by shootings, noting that Good and Pretti had allegedly posed serous danger to ICE and Border Patrol agents. Good had hit an ICE agent with her car before she was fatally shot and Pretti had allegedly engaged with Border Patrol agents while carrying a loaded gun before he was wrestled to the ground and shot.
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