Trump sends border tsar Homan to Minnesota after second fatal ICE shooting

Donald Trump is ‌sending his border tsar Tom Homan to Minnesota later on ‍Monday, the US president said after an outcry over the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by immigration agents over the weekend in Minneapolis.“Tom is tough ⁠but fair, and will report directly to me,” he wrote in a social media post.People take part in a demonstration a day after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Photo: ReutersWhite House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt separately said on social media that Homan would manage Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the state.On ‍Sunday, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that his administration was reviewing ‍the latest shooting and signalled a willingness to eventually withdraw immigration enforcement officials from the Minneapolis area.Federal agents try to clear demonstrators near a hotel, using tear gas during a demonstration in response to federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis on January 25. Photo: AP“At some point ‌we will leave. We’ve done, they’ve done a phenomenal job,” Trump told ‍the Journal in an interview, without offering any detailed timeline.