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Minneapolis live updates: ICE arrest powers expanded, memo says
The memo was dated Jan. 28 and signed by by Acting Director Todd Lyons.
A 37-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday morning in Minneapolis -- the second shooting of a U.S. citizen this month by federal agents in the city.
The shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, ratcheted up tensions, as protesters clashed in the streets with law enforcement in the aftermath of the shooting.
The incident followed the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, on Jan. 7.
Key Headlines
- Trump says federal agents won’t be deployed for riot control unless asked; will still protect federal property
- Judge orders 5-year-old, father released
- ICE expands administrative arrest powers, memo says
- Walz responds to news that FBI is investigating Pretti shooting
- Trump calls Pretti 'insurrectionist' after earlier video surfaces
- DOJ launches investigation into Pretti killing: Blanche
Leavitt says she has not heard Trump refer to Pretti as 'domestic terrorist'
During a briefing Monday, the White House appeared to distance itself from other Trump administration officials' remarks that labeled Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist following the fatal shooting.
Asked if Trump agreed with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who claimed that Pretti "committed an act of domestic terrorism," and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who labeled Pretti a "domestic terrorist," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, "I have not heard the president characterize Mr. Pretti in that way."
Leavitt continued, "However, I have heard the president say he wants to let the facts and the investigation lead itself."
Greg Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow: Sources
Greg Bovino, Border Patrol's commander at large for Minneapolis, is expected to leave the city on Tuesday, according to multiple sources.
Plans could shift given the fluid situation on the ground, however, according to sources.
Some Border Patrol agents who are with Bovino are also leaving Minneapolis soon, according to multiple sources.
-ABC News' Luke Barr
Walz says Trump's staff 'doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota'
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal where he makes the case that "federal officials are lying" regarding the immigration situation and ensuing intervention in Minneapolis.
In a post on X sharing a link to his op-ed, Walz said, "I spoke to the President earlier. We had a productive conversation and I explained to him that his staff doesn’t have their facts straight about Minnesota. My thoughts in the Wall Street Journal."
In the op-ed, Walz wrote that he has "repeatedly appealed to President Trump to lower the temperature. But he refuses."
"I fear that his hope is for the tension between ICE agents and the communities they’re ransacking to boil over -- that he wants you to see more chaos on your TV screens, protests turn into riots, more people get hurt," Walz wrote.
The governor called on Trump to end the "unlawful, violent and chaotic campaign, and we can and must rebuild an immigration enforcement system that is secure, accountable and humane."
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
No order issued yet following hearing on bid to halt ICE operation
The federal hearing on Minnesota's request to halt Operation Metro Surge ended without U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez issuing an order.
"I do not intend in any way for the depth of my analysis or whatever time I take to write to be seen as a belief that this is unimportant," Menendez said. "It's because it's extremely important that I'm doing everything I can to get it right."
-ABC News' Laura Romero