Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official in charge of President Trump’s on-the-ground immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, is expected to leave the city, according to two U.S. officials.
The decision to move him out of the city came two days after he made the unsubstantiated claim that a man who was shot and killed there by federal agents was planning to “massacre” law enforcement officers. Some of the federal agents in the city are also expected to begin leaving on Tuesday, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said after a phone call on Monday with President Trump, without providing details.
Mr. Trump and his top aides have faced intense scrutiny over the death of the man, Alex Pretti, including from some of the president’s most ardent supporters. Earlier Monday, Mr. Trump said he was sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota to oversee operations on the ground. Mr. Homan, the president added, would report directly to him.
Mr. Walz’s office described the phone call as “productive” and said it touched on topics Mr. Trump’s post did not mention: efforts to ensure independent investigations into the killings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an agent on Jan. 7, and the possibility of reducing the number of federal agents deployed to the state.
But soon after Mr. Trump posted about the call, Karoline Leavittthe White House press secretary, continued to lay blame for the shooting of Mr. Pretti at the feet of Mr. Walz and other Democrats — even as she sought to distance Mr. Trump from the attacks on Mr. Pretti by some of his top allies, including Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff.
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