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The US Border Patrol’s chief Greg Bovino and some agents have been ordered out of Minneapolis in a stunning turnaround after a second US citizen was killed by federal agents in the city this month, according to reports.
The order does not extend to ICE and it does not include all Border Patrol agents.
However, Bovino will be joining the agents “imminently” marching out of the state, Fox reported.
He has been criticized for his no-holds-barred approach to immigration enforcement, and as well as his claims Saturday that Pretti was brandishing a gun before he was shot by Border agents.
Chaos has reigned in the Minnesota city since Jan. 7 when anti-ICE protestor and mother-of-three Renee Good, 37, was shot dead by an ICE agent after she accelerated her SUV at him.
A second American, armed ICU nurse Pretti, was shot Saturday, and authorities believe that an errant shot from his pistol — after it was removed from him — may have caused agents to open fire.
Pretti, 37, was carrying a pistol in his belt when he put himself between a protestor and ICE agents, and was tackled and disarmed by Border Patrol agents before being shot dead in the scuffle.
Tensions reached a fever pitch after Pretti’s death – with even some Republicans publicly suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security withdraw its agents in a rare break from President Trump’s agenda.
Bovino spent the weekend calling Pretti a “domestic terrorist” who was planning to “massacre” immigration officers, while blaming Democrats like Gov. Tim Walz for “inciting” the chaos.
But President Trump seemed to dial that rhetoric back on Monday, saying he and the governor had a productive conversation about 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 wrote on TruthSocial.
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